China News Service, July 2. According to the official website of the United Nations, WHO Regional Director for Europe Kruger said on July 1 that Europe constitutes the epicenter of the monkeypox epidemic.

Since mid-May, monkeypox cases reported in the WHO European Region accounted for nearly 90% of all laboratory-confirmed and globally reported cases, in addition to a tripling of cases over the past two weeks.

The data map shows the mature oval-shaped monkeypox virus particles and the crescent-shaped and spherical immature virus particles under the electron microscope.

  Six more countries and territories have reported monkeypox cases since the WHO European Region briefing on June 15, bringing the total to 31, Kruger said, adding two new cases in the region over the past two weeks. times, reaching more than 4,500 laboratory-confirmed cases.

  According to Kruger, the monkeypox epidemic is spreading rapidly, spreading weekly, daily and hourly to previously unaffected areas, and that the European region "remains the epicenter of this expanding outbreak."

  Kruger called for measures to curb the spread of the epidemic, including the need for countries to rapidly expand surveillance and disseminate the correct information to affected communities and the general public in the most understandable way.

  Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus.

In the past few weeks, several European and American countries have reported multiple clusters of monkeypox virus, most of them involving men who have sex with men.

  WHO has said that monkeypox cases are often found in West and Central Africa, and it is not normal for confirmed and suspected cases reported in many countries without any travel history to monkeypox-endemic areas.