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Monkeypox 2024 Outbreak Meaning. The virus’s spread outside west and central africa and among sexual. This epidemiological overview provides an update to the number of confirmed and highly probable mpox cases in england, northern ireland, scotland and wales.

For the second time since 2022, mpox has been declared a global health emergency as the virus spreads rapidly across the african continent and risks entering other continents. Here, we explain what monkeypox is, what makes the outbreak unusual, and why it’s important to take seriously but unlikely to play out like the coronavirus.