Mpox risk to Europe “low” says EU official, but virus and bird flu need monitoring

How concerned are you about the ongoing mpox outbreak?1

We at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) are working closely with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and other international organisations to help in the best ways we can and give our support to prevent further spread of the infection. As we look at it from the European perspective, our assessment is that the risk to Europe is low. The conditions for further spread of the virus—in the form we know it now—are not good from the virus’s perspective. We believe that it will be possible to contain it if more people become infected.