interesting stuff, professor stephen morse | support.rse at columbia university, thank you. thank you very much. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. firefighters are still at a block of flats in dagenham in east london where a large fire broke out early this morning. more than 80 people were ta ken to safety. two needed hospital treatment. the london fire brigade says everyone has been accounted for and it is investigating how the blaze started. tributes are being paid to the former england manager sven—goran eriksson who has died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 76. the swedish coach became the first foreign manager of the england men's team in 2001. he led the side to three consecutive quarterfinals during his five years in charge. the metropolitan police say one person has been stabbed on the final day of the notting hill carnival in west london. 0fficers made 145 arrests on monday, mostly for possessing an offensive weapon or drug offences. 16 people were held for as

now is epidemiology professor at the mailman school of public health in columbia university, dr stephen morseat stephen. why are we seeing this outbreak? ., , , outbreak? not entirely sure. wh are outbreak? not entirely sure. why are there _ outbreak? not entirely sure. why are there so _ outbreak? not entirely sure. why are there so many - outbreak? not entirely sure. | why are there so many cases right now? we are seeing however is a very complex situation with a number of different outbreaks, all occurring at the same time. starting in may of 2022, there was a worldwide outbreak which is still going on, in which the who declared a public health emergency. and that was a monkeypox essentially from west africa originally, brought to the uk and then spread throughout the world and still going on from the nigerian outbreak. there is another clade or variety, if you will, branch of the mpox virus in central africa which has been classically known, and it's more severe. but usually, we don't see such a large number of cases. fik. so we're seeing of cases. ok. so we're seeing several academics ——