Mpox outbreak

Mpox outbreak, monkeypox outbreak, mpox epidemic or monkeypox epidemic may refer to:

• 1958 discovery of mpox as a distinct illness in laboratory monkeys in Copenhagen, Denmark, the first recognized milestone in mpox epidemiology history
• 1964 outbreak of mpox at Rotterdam Zoo in the Netherlands (with no cases in humans)
• various dates between 1970 and present, outbreaks of human mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where the disease is enzootic.
• 1971 and 2017–present outbreaks of human mpox in Nigeria
• 2003 Midwest monkeypox outbreak, in the United States (human infections traced to animals imported from Ghana)
• 2022–2023 mpox outbreak, a global outbreak
• 2023–2024 mpox epidemic, an international epidemic, primarily in Central Africa

• Mpox § Epidemiology

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