The World Health Organization announced on Sunday that it had received data on 780 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox in 27 countries where the disease is not considered endemic.
She said that this number of cases of infection was recorded during a three-week period, from the thirteenth of May until last Thursday.
The organization indicated that the recorded number is less than the real number due to the limited epidemiological and laboratory information, and it expected the disease to spread.
The organization added that "it is likely that other countries will identify their cases and there will be a greater spread of the virus."
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Although the World Health Organization stressed that the level of risk to the public remains low, it said that this may change in the event that the virus becomes widely endemic in countries outside Africa, where it is usually found.
Only a few cases were reported, hospitalized due to infection, and patients were subjected to isolation.
The World Health Organization has published a list of countries that have reported the highest number of cases and in which the disease is not considered endemic. The list included Britain (207 cases), Spain (156 cases), Portugal (138 cases), Canada (58 cases) and Germany (57 cases).
In addition to Europe and North America, isolated cases have also been reported in Argentina, Australia, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.
The World Health Organization said that "some countries report that new generations of cases no longer appear only among known contacts of previous confirmed cases, which indicates the loss of chains of infection through an undetected spread of the virus."