Everything you need to know about the monkeypox health emergency - Ars Technica

On May 7, health officials in the UK reported a case of monkeypox in a person who had recently traveled to Nigeria.

The case was very rare but not necessarily alarming; a small number of travel-related cases of monkeypox pop up now and then.

The same day, health officials in Massachusetts reported the first US case.

In early June, the global tally exceeded 1,300 from 31 countries, including 45 cases in the US.

On July 23, with global cases at over 16,000 from more than 70 countries, the World Health Organization declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).

Soon after the PHEIC declaration, the US took the global lead for the highest monkeypox case tally.

And on August 4, with over 6,600 cases in 48 states, the US government declared the outbreak a public health emergency.

As of August 9, just over four months since the first case was reported in the UK, there are more than 30,000 monkeypox cases reported from at least 88 countries, including at least 11 deaths.