More than 85 new cases of monkeypox have been reported across 11 countries, triggering new questions about the virus's transmission.
that has infected people in Europe looks relatively run-of-the-mill. That's a clue that human behavior, rather than inherent changes in the virus itself, might be driving the new cases.Viruses often transmit more easily within tight-knit groups of people. According to, a group that gathers infectious disease data, all of the recent monkeypox cases for which gender has been reported have been male.
Some experts hypothesized that the loosening of international travel restrictions may have contributed to the spread. in recent years. The Democratic Republic of the Congo reported up to 18,000 confirmed or suspected monkeypox cases from 2010 to 2019, but fewer than 10,000 between 2000 and 2009. In 2020 alone, the country reported more than 6,000 suspected cases, according to the WHO.Monkeypox may have started spreading in Europe a while before it landed on scientists' radars, several experts suggested.
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