The World Health Organization (WHO) cautioned Friday that some 200 monkeypox cases found in recent weeks outside of countries where the virus usually circulates could be just the beginning.
"We don't know if we are just seeing the peak of the iceberg," Sylvie Briand, WHO's epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention chief, acknowledged in a briefing to countries on the "unusual" spread of the virus.
Portugal has meanwhile registered 74 confirmed cases, health authorities said Friday, adding that all the occurrences are in men, mainly aged below 40."We are still at the very, very beginning of this event," Briand told member state representatives attending the World Health Assembly in Geneva. Monkeypox is related to smallpox, which killed millions around the world every year before it was eradicated in 1980.
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