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. 2024 Jul;29(27):2400330.
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.27.2400330.

Continued circulation of mpox: an epidemiological and phylogenetic assessment, European Region, 2023 to 2024

Aisling M Vaughan  1   2 , Mohammed Afzal  1   3 , Priyanka Nannapaneni  3 , Mathias Leroy  2 , Xanthi Andrianou  3 , Jeffrey Pires  2 , Silvia Funke  3 , Celine Roman  2 , Juliana Reyes-Uruena  3 , Stephan Aberle  4 , Aristos Aristodimou  5 , Gudrun Aspelund  6 , Kirsty F Bennet  7 , Antra Bormane  8 , Anna Caraglia  9 , Hannah Charles  7 , Emilie Chazelle  10 , Iva Christova  11 , Orna Cohen  12 , Costas Constantinou  5 , Simon Couvreur  13 , Asuncion Diaz  14 , Kateřina Fabiánová  15 , Federica Ferraro  9 , Marte Petrikke Grenersen  16 , Eva Grilc  17 , Tuula Hannila-Handelberg  18 , Anne Kathrine Hvass  19 , Derval Igoe  20 , Klaus Jansen  21 , Denisa Janță  22 , Styliani Kaoustou  23 , Anders Koch  24   19 , Mirjana Lana Kosanovic Licina  25 , Stefka Krumova  11 , Anton Labutin  26 , Raskit Lachmann  21 , Amaryl Lecompte  13 , Rémi Lefrançois  27 , Viktorija Leitena  8 , Kirsi Liitsola  18 , Ivan Mlinarić  28 , Zohar Mor  29   12 , Martha Neary  30 , Alina Novacek  31 , Magnus Wenstøp Øgle  16 , Hana Orlíková  32   15 , Kalliopi Papadima  23 , Moa Rehn  33 , Malgorzata Sadkowska-Todys  34 , Anca Sîrbu  22 , Klara Sondén  33 , Berta Suárez  35 , Marianna Thordardottir  6 , Paula Vasconcelos  36 , Joao Vieira Martins  37 , Karolina Zakrzewska  34 , Marc-Alain Widdowson  38   2 , Céline M Gossner  38   3
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Continued circulation of mpox: an epidemiological and phylogenetic assessment, European Region, 2023 to 2024

Aisling M Vaughan et al. Euro Surveill. 2024 Jul.

Abstract

During the summer of 2023, the European Region experienced a limited resurgence of mpox cases following the substantial outbreak in 2022. This increase was characterised by asynchronous and bimodal increases, with countries experiencing peaks at different times. The demographic profile of cases during the resurgence was largely consistent with those reported previously. All available sequences from the European Region belonged to clade IIb. Sustained efforts are crucial to control and eventually eliminate mpox in the European Region.

Keywords: Europe; MPXV; Mpox; WHO European Region; orthopoxvirus; outbreak.

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Conflict of interest: None declared.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
30-day centred moving average of daily mpox cases, by country, 2022–2024 (n = 27,298)
Figure 2
Figure 2
Geographical distribution of reported mpox cases, WHO European Region, 2022–2024 (n = 27,298)
Figure 3
Figure 3
Phylogenetic analysis of clade IIb monkeypox virus publicly available sequences from NCBI, 2017–2024 (n = 1,943)
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