The virus originates in wild animals

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Europe remains the epicenter of the current outbreak, with around 85% of the world's infections.

The disease, which was first discovered in African macaques, causes a rash that can look like chickenpox. like rodents, but occasionally jumps into human populations.

Most people recover from the virus within weeks, but in rare cases the disease can be deadly.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that travelers protect themselves from monkeypox by wearing masks, and the WHO has urged people who contract the virus to use condoms buy phone number list during sex for 12 weeks as a precaution after their recovery.

U.S. officials have said the country has plenty of effective vaccines and treatments to respond to any further spread of the virus.

The U.S. is facing at least two separate outbreaks of monkeypox, federal health officials said Friday, based on samples of virus that have been genetically sequenced from some cases so far.

A CDC official said the sequenced monkeypox cases — which now include patients in Massachusetts, Florida, Virginia and Utah — suggest the majority of cases spotted in the U.S. are linked to the variant that has been spreading in Europe. Those also appear similar to the virus spotted in an infected traveler to Maryland from Nigeria last year.

However, at least two of the U.S. cases do not appear to be closely linked to the virus spreading in Europe. Instead, they look similar to a virus sample from a traveler to Texas last year.


"It's not clear what all this means, but it's likely that within the last couple of years, there have been at least two different instances where monkeypox virus spilled over to people in Nigeria, from the animal that maintains it," Jennifer McQuiston, head of the CDC's monkeypox response, told reporters at a briefing on Friday.