GENEVA, July 5. /TASS/. The World Health Organization has information that 5,322 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox and one death from the disease have been registered so far this year, WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said on Tuesday.
"From January 1 to June 30 this year, WHO received reports of 5,322 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox and one death from the disease," she said at a news conference in Geneva.
Most cases of infection, or 85%, were detected in the European Region. The only death to date has been reported in Nigeria.