What Happened to The Monkeypox Epidemic?
When a tropical disease goes global.
Early in May, a monkeypox epidemic broke out in multiple countries outside of the disease’s endemic regions of West and Central Africa — with Europe and America reporting large self-sustained chains of transmission for the first time in history.
It has now been half a year since the global outbreak was first announced by the World Health Organization (WHO), and news around the subject have fairly subsided. However, monkeypox has yet to lose its status as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
As of November 17th, there have been over eighty-thousand confirmed cases of monkeypox worldwide this year. The vast majority of which (99%) were reported outside of Africa. The epidemic has now shifted from Europe — which was the most affected region in the summer — to the Americas, as the United States (US) and Brazil became the countries with the most total reported infections.
When considering population size though, the Iberian Peninsula is the most affected region, with…
