As of May 26, there is a cumulative total of 257 laboratory confirmed cases of monkeypox and about 120 suspected cases.
On the other hand, no deaths were reported.
But "the situation is evolving rapidly and WHO predicts that identified cases will increase as surveillance expands to non-endemic countries, as well as to countries known to be endemic that have not reported cases recently."
Thus in a note the World Health Organization emphasizing that since May 13, monkeypox has been reported to the WHO by 23 member states that are not endemic to the virus.
