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Table 1 Countries with past and present monkeypox outbreaks in humans (Alakunle et al. 2020)

From: Is monkeypox going to be the next pandemic?

Countries

Year of outbreak

Democratic Republic of Congo

1970, 1966–1997, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2022

Liberia

1970, 2018, 2022

Nigeria

1971, 1978, 2017–2022

Sierra Leone

1970, 2014, 2017

Central African Republic

1983, 2018, 2022

USA

2003, 2021, 2022

UK

2018, 2019, 2021, 2022

Israel

2018, 2022

Cameroon

2018, 2022

Singapore

2019, 2022