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More than a dozen countries where monkeypox is unusual, mostly in Europe, have reported at least one confirmed case, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in an epidemiological note released Wednesday night.

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This handout photo provided by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention was taken in 1997 during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. - AFP

Monkeypox is a rare but potentially serious viral illness that typically begins with flu-like illness and swelling of the lymph nodes and progresses to a widespread rash on the face and body, according to the CDC.

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A treatment room at a monkeypox quarantine area of the centre of the International medical NGO Doctors Without Borders in Zomea Kaka, the Lobaya region, in the Central African Republic on Oct 18, 2018. - AFP

A child infected with monkeypox is treated at the Doctors Without Borders centre in Zomea Kaka, in the Lobaya region, in the Central African Republic, on Oct 18, 2018. - Photo: AFP

A woman and her child, both infected with monkeypox await treatment at the quarantine of the centre of the International medical NGO Doctors Without Borders (Medecins sans frontieres - MSF), in Zomea Kaka, in the Lobaya region, in the Central African Republic on October 18, 2018.(Photo by CHARLES BOUESSEL / AFP)

A child infected with monkeypox is treated at the Doctors Without Borders centre in Zomea Kaka, in the Lobaya region, in the Central African Republic, on Oct 18, 2018. - AFP