Portugal registers a new outbreak of monkeypox with dozens of cases in a month

The Portuguese health authorities have detected a new outbreak of the mpox virus, formerly known as monkeypox, which has totaled 37 cases in the last month, all of them residing in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region.

The country went three months without reporting any cases of mpox, but during the month of June it detected 12 infections and another 25 between July 1 and 20, the Portuguese General Directorate of Health (DGS) reported today in a statement.

All the new cases are male, the majority aged between 20 and 40 years.

Since the first case was registered in May 2022, Portugal has accumulated 990 laboratory-confirmed virus infections and one death.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of the international public health emergency for mpox last May.