The joint report by the ECDC and the World Health Organization (WHO) regional delegation for Europe, states that Portugal registered 1,221 cases of the disease previously called monkeypox in the period in question, behind Spain (8,632), France (4,430), Germany (4,236), the United Kingdom (4,215) and the Netherlands (1,464).

Italy (1,148) also has more than a thousand cases, in a group that includes the 27 member states of the European Union and the three remaining countries that make up the European Economic Area (EEA), Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

In the last three months, 713 cases of mpox have been reported in 24 countries and regions, and in the last four weeks, 289 cases of the infectious disease have been identified in 18 countries and regions.

In these periods, Portugal registered 11 and seven cases, respectively, while Germany identified 146 and 77, Spain 151 and 47, France 47 and 25 and Italy 61 and 25.

According to data from the Directorate-General for Health from December last year, there have been three outbreaks of the disease in Portugal and two deaths since May 2022.

The European report also indicates that, from March 7, 2022 to April 14, 2025, a total of 29,607 cases of mpox were identified in 47 countries and regions of the WHO European Region and “data from 29,455 cases in 43 countries and regions were reported to the ECDC and the WHO European delegation, through the European Surveillance System (TESSy), 0.65% of which were “probable cases”.

The majority of cases were male (98%) and the most affected age group was 31 to 40 years (40%).