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managing to cool down now. It's been quite the few days, hasn't it? I think I've spent

more time in a paddling pool since the weekend than I probably have for a decade or more.

However, here on Inside Health, we're going to give you a bit of a respite from the heatwave chat.

Instead, we're going to be focusing today on monkeypox,

whether it's with us forever now, what a bendy body is telling us about how our brains work,

and if the pandemic has left a permanent scar on children's activity levels. So first of all,

let's focus on monkeypox, because it was only at the beginning of May that the UK reported

a single case of monkeypox.

And it didn't cause alarm.

I mean, we do get occasional cases in this country

when people travel from abroad where there are infected animals.

But this has been unusual.

This has proven to be far from just a one-off.

More than 10,000 cases have been found across more than 60 countries that don't normally live with monkeypox.

And later this week, the World Health Organization's experts are going to meet again to discuss whether all this adds up to a global emergency.

So I caught up with one of the few doctors in the UK that has direct experience of

treating monkeypox. That's Dr Jake Dunning, an infectious diseases consultant at the Royal Free

Hospital in London. So Jake, welcome to Inside Health. Thanks. So infectious disease doctor,

you've had a quiet couple of years then. Something like that. Now, you're one of those people that has actually seen monkeypox before the current

outbreak of monkeypox in the UK.

So you've got experienced treating patients.

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