Cases of Monkeypox Registered in Europe

Monkeypox has been reported in Massachusetts, USA, on Wednesday. This is a rare disease that is typically found in Africa, according to USA Today.

Recently, a small number of confirmed or suspected cases have also been reported in the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Spain. The sudden outbreak has raised concerns among public health experts around the world. On Wednesday, the World Health Organization announced that it is sending a team to address the outbreak of the disease in the United Kingdom.

“Typically, monkeypox is not widely spread globally,” said Dr. Ann Rimoin, a professor at the University of California, Fielding School of Public Health, who has extensively studied monkeypox and other infectious diseases prevalent in Central Africa. She noted that such outbreaks are “rare and unusual events.”

Due to the spread of monkeypox in Europe, the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing has tightened sanitary control measures at the borders with Russia.

Although people infected with the virus typically recover, it can be dangerous and in some cases fatal, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Here’s everything you need to know about the disease: Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by viruses related to the one that causes smallpox. The virus was first identified in 1958 among monkeys being studied for research.

The first human case of monkeypox was documented in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Today, most cases of monkeypox infection still occur there, but the disease has also been reported in several other countries in Central and West Africa, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.