What the records say
- When
- 4 May 2022 – 11 May 2023
- Kind
- Epidemic
- Coordinates
- 26.68° N, 128.23° E
- Description
- outbreak of viral disease
- Deaths
- 8
- Cause
- monkeypox in Nigeria
Placed at the middle of the 97 countries Wikidata lists.
2022–2023 mpox outbreak
World public health emergency (May 2022 – May 2023)
In May 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) made an emergency announcement of the existence of a multi-country outbreak of mpox, a viral disease then commonly known as "monkeypox". The initial cluster of cases was found in the United Kingdom, where the first case was detected in London on 6 May 2022 in a patient with a recent travel history from Nigeria where the disease has been endemic.
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