2022–2023 mpox outbreak in Spain
The 2022–2023 mpox outbreak in Spain is a part of the outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus. Spain was the second country outside the African countries with endemic mpox, to experience an outbreak in 2022. The outbreak was first reported in Spain on 18 May 2022.
| 2022–2023 mpox outbreak in Spain | |
|---|---|
| Disease | Mpox |
| Virus strain | Monkeypox virus (West African clade) |
| Location | Spain |
| Index case | Madrid |
| Arrival date | 18 May 2022 (1 year, 10 months, 4 weeks and 1 day ago) |
| Date | As of 19 July 2022 |
| Confirmed cases |
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| Suspected cases‡ | 0 (Regional governments) |
| Hospitalized cases | 155 (Ministry of Health) |
Deaths | 2 (Ministry of Health) |
| Government website | |
| Monkeypox alert in Spain and other European countries (in Spanish) | |
| ‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out. | |
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