Belgium has recorded its first death of a patient suffering from monkeypox,
the third in Europe, according to the weekly report on the outbreak from the
Sciensano public health institute.
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Europe and the United States are the hotspots of a global outbreak of the
disease which has seen 50,496 cases and 16 deaths, according to the World
Health Organisation.
The WHO triggered its highest level of alarm on July 24, classifying
monkeypox as a public health emergency of international concern, alongside
COVID-19.
In Belgium, as elsewhere, cases have been concentrated among men who have
sex with men. At the end of August the country of 11.5 million people had
recorded 706 cases, 32 of them requiring hospitalisation.
Belgium's first death was a monkeypox patient with "underlying medical
conditions", the Sciensano report said.
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