The Asian Tiger, Asian Bush and Yellow Fever mosquitos have made themselves at home in Europe throughout the last years, bringing with them some of the more exotic diseases, rarely seen in the EU before.
Mpox (previously known as monkeypox) is not a newly discovered disease. The 2022 outbreak however showed that it may spread through a completely different route.
The information in this document has been produced by community organisations and public health experts. Although it addresses the group that has been most affected by the current outbreak to date - gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men - it applies to anyone who may be exposed to monkeypox infection.