Is Monkeypox Still Spreading 2024. Monkeypox viruses generally circulate among wild animals in central and west africa, and usually spread to people when they eat or have other close contact with infected animals. Most people fully recover, but some get very sick.

Scientists from the africa centres. Mpox, the high infectious disease that used to be called monkeypox, has been declared a public health emergency in africa by the continent’s top health body.