WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases top 100 in Europe

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was on Friday to discuss of monkeypox, more common to west and central Africa, after over 100 cases were confirmed or suspected in Europe.

In what Germany described as the largest outbreak in Europe ever, cases have been reported in at least nine countries – Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom - as well as the United States, Canada and Australia.

First identified in monkeys, the disease typically

and has rarely spread outside Africa, so this series of cases has . However, scientists do not expect the outbreak to like COVID-19, given the virus does not spread as easily as SARS-COV-2.

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