British medical researchers discover monkeypox may be contagious for up to 10 weeks!

​Patients are contagious until their scabs fall off, the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) says, and the scabs themselves can contain viral material.

However, the latest study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, suggests people may be infectious long after their rash has settled.

Researchers looked at seven cases of monkeypox in the UK between 2018 and 2021.

One of the patients, an unnamed man in his 40s, caught monkeypox in Nigeria before being hospitalised in the UK.