London, June 13 (BNA): British health officials have discovered 104 more cases of monkeypox in England in what has become the largest outbreak of the usually rare disease outside Africa.
The UK’s Health Security Agency said on Monday there are now 470 cases of monkeypox across the country, according to the Associated Press.
The World Health Organization said last week that 1,285 cases of monkeypox had been reported in 28 countries where monkeypox was not known to be endemic.
No deaths have been reported outside Africa. After the United Kingdom, the largest number of cases have been reported in Spain, Germany and Canada.
The World Health Organization said many people in an outbreak had “atypical features” of the disease that could make doctors more difficult to diagnose.
Meanwhile, countries in Africa have reported more than 1,500 suspected cases, including 72 deaths from eight countries. Monkeypox is an endemic disease in Central and West Africa.
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