Here’s what we know:Įven as the WHO called an emergency meeting on the disease spread, it said the early cases were unusual for three reasons: All but one have no relevant travel history to areas where monkeypox is endemic most are being detected through sexual health services and among men who have sex with men, and the wide geographic spread across Europe and beyond suggests that transmission may have been going on for some time. With Monkeypox spreading in Europe, and many cases reported among sexually active men, there is a lot of speculation on whether the disease, which has existed in Africa for a while, has mutated into a sexually transmitted one.
