Europe is an outbreak, it is now the epicenter of the wave of diffusion

“The scale of this epidemic presents a real risk: the longer the virus circulates, the more it extends its reach and the more the disease will take hold in non-endemic countries,” Kluge warned. Usually circulating in central and western Africa, the virus is now present, outside Europe, in Australia, the Middle East, North America and South America, for a total of over 1,600 cases.

For now, the WHO does not recommend mass vaccination. On Tuesday, European health authorities ordered more than 100,000 doses of the smallpox vaccine approved in the United States also against that of monkeys and considered effective.