Dr. Derval Igoe:

Yes, definitely. What happened in May of this year was very unexpected in that there has been in recent years the sporadic imported case from somebody who was in a country where the disease occurs, and who maybe travelled to England or America and became ill and was then identified. That had happened. What was extraordinary this year was that, in May, people were identified with monkeypox who had no travel links to the country in which it occurred and where it does happen. This was extraordinary in that it was not associated with a country that has occasionally gotten cases of monkeypox.