European monkeypox outbreak is unprecedented and worrying (but it won’t be another pandemic)

Monkeypox is doing the rounds in Europe for the first time. The infectious disease, which kills 1 to 4 percent of patients, comes from Africa. ‘We have to be alert. But we don’t fear an explosive spread today.’

On May 7, a first case of monkeypox was diagnosed in London in a patient who had been to Nigeria, a country where the disease is endemic. It wasn’t until a week later that the alarm bells really went off among experts …