The case, announced on May 7, is a patient who recently traveled to Nigeria, The first case of monkeypox outside of Africa was detected in the United Kingdom on May 6. Australia, Canada, Italy, and Sweden have become the latest countries to report their first confirmed cases of monkeypox, a rare viral disease typically limited to west and central Africa that has seen over two dozen cases reported and many more being investigated in several non-endemic countries over the past three weeks.
