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

• Published in: Euro surveillance : bulletin européen sur les maladies transmissibles Vol. 29; no. 27
• Main Authors: Vaughan, Aisling M, Afzal, Mohammed, Nannapaneni, Priyanka, Leroy, Mathias, Andrianou, Xanthi, Pires, Jeffrey, Funke, Silvia, Roman, Celine, Reyes-Uruena, Juliana, Aberle, Stephan, Aristodimou, Aristos, Aspelund, Gudrun, Bennet, Kirsty F, Bormane, Antra, Caraglia, Anna, Charles, Hannah, Chazelle, Emilie, Christova, Iva, Cohen, Orna, Constantinou, Costas, Couvreur, Simon, Diaz, Asuncion, Fabiánová, Kateřina, Ferraro, Federica, Grenersen, Marte Petrikke, Grilc, Eva, Hannila-Handelberg, Tuula, Hvass, Anne Kathrine, Igoe, Derval, Jansen, Klaus, Janță, Denisa, Kaoustou, Styliani, Koch, Anders, Kosanovic Licina, Mirjana Lana, Krumova, Stefka, Labutin, Anton, Lachmann, Raskit, Lecompte, Amaryl, Lefrançois, Rémi, Leitena, Viktorija, Liitsola, Kirsi, Mlinarić, Ivan, Mor, Zohar, Neary, Martha, Novacek, Alina, Øgle, Magnus Wenstøp, Orlíková, Hana, Papadima, Kalliopi, Rehn, Moa, Sadkowska-Todys, Malgorzata, Sîrbu, Anca, Sondén, Klara, Suárez, Berta, Thordardottir, Marianna, Vasconcelos, Paula, Vieira Martins, Joao, Zakrzewska, Karolina, Widdowson, Marc-Alain, Gossner, Céline M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sweden European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 04.07.2024
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Child; Child, Preschool; Disease Outbreaks; Europe - epidemiology; Female; Humans; Incidence; Male; Middle Aged; Phylogeny; Population Surveillance; Rapid Communication; Young Adult; Europe; Mpox; WHO European Region; outbreak; MPXV; Europe; orthopoxvirus
• ISSN: 1560-7917; 1025-496X; 1560-7917
• DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.27.2400330

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.