Day: September 9, 2018

    The rare viral infection was recorded on Friday in a Nigerian national staying at a naval base in Cornwall, Public Health England (PHE) said. The patient was transferred to the expert infectious disease unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London on Saturday morning. They are believed to have contracted the infection in Nigeria before travelling to the UK. PHE said monkeypox does not spread easily and most patients recover within a few weeks, but it can cause severe illness in some people. Initial symptoms include fever, headache, aching muscles, backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion. A rash can also develop, usually starting on the face before spreading to other parts of the body. It eventually forms a scab which falls off. PHE said that as a preca...

    Boris Johnson has accused Theresa May of wrapping a suicide vest around Britain and handing the detonator to Brussels. Barely 24 hours after the former foreign secretary announced that he and his wife Marina Wheeler are to end their 25-year marriage, Mr Johnson used an article in the Mail On Sunday to dramatically turn up the heat on the prime minister. He wrote: At every stage in the talks so far, Brussels gets what Brussels wants. We have agreed to the EU's timetable; we have agreed to hand over £39bn, for nothing in return. Now under the Chequers proposal, we are set to agree to accept their rules forever with no say on the making of those rules. It is a humiliation We look like a seven-stone weakling being comically bent out of shape by a 500lb gorilla. And ...