Mpox cases in Europe 2025| ��ƽ��

Number of confirmed mpox cases in Europe as of January 30, 2024, by country

Characteristic	Number of confirmed cases
Spain	8,481
France	4,383
United Kingdom	4,166
Germany	4,090
Netherlands	1,428
Portugal	1,210
Italy	1,087
Belgium	852
Switzerland	588
Austria	367
Sweden	306
Ireland	270
Poland	227
Denmark	211
Greece	129
Norway	119
Czechia	94
Hungary	85
Luxembourg	62
Romania	48
Slovenia	47
Finland	43
Malta	41
Serbia	40
Croatia	35
Slovakia	18
Iceland	17
Turkey	12
Estonia	11
Bulgaria	10
Bosnia and Herzegovina	9
Latvia	6
Gibraltar	6
Cyprus	6
Lithuania	6
Andorra	4
Georgia	2
Moldova	2
San Marino	1

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Release date

January 2025

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Europe

Survey time period

2022-2025

Supplementary notes

A confirmed cases defined by the ECDC is "A person with a laboratory-confirmed monkeypox infection with either
- monkeypox virus specific PCR assay positive result or
- orthopoxvirus specific PCR assay positive result which is then confirmed by nucleotide sequence determination of the detected virus as MPXV with symptom onset since March 1, 2022."

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As of January 30, 2025, 40 countries across Europe had reported confirmed cases of monkeypox. So far, 8,481 cases have been confirmed in Spain, while 4,383 cases have been confirmed in France. In July 2022, the outbreak of monkeypox was declared to be a public health emergency by the World Health Organization.

Distribution by age and gender

�ճ��age group with the highest number of recorded monkeypox cases in Europe was those aged between 31 and 40 years old, amounting to nearly 10.8 thousand cases as of July 2024. This was followed by the age group of 18–30 years, which accounted for almost seven thousand cases. The majority of the cases were recorded among men, whereas the number of cases among women was less than five hundred.

Monkeypox worldwide

As of February 2025, there were approximately 132.8 cases of monkeypox reported worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. In Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo recorded 23.3 thousand suspected cases in the given year, of which only 5.5 thousand were actually confirmed. In Latin America, Brazil was the leading country with 11.2 confirmed cases, followed by Colombia and Mexico with over four thousand cases each, as of June 2024.

Additional information regarding this outbreak of monkeypox can be found on our page on the subject.