The World Health Organization (WHO) does not believe the monkeypox outbreak outside Africa will turn into another pandemic, an official said on Monday.

Rosamund Lewis, technical lead for monkeypox from the WHO Health Emergencies Programme said that while WHO is "not concerned," the outbreak would lead to a pandemic, there are worries that individuals may acquire the infection through high-risk exposure if they don’t have the information they need to protect themselves.

The strain of virus implicated in the outbreak is understood to kill a small fraction of those infected, but no deaths have been reported so far.

Most cases have cropped up in Europe rather than in the Central and West African countries where the virus is endemic, and are predominantly not linked to travel.

Scientists are therefore looking into what might explain this unusual upsurge of cases, while public health authorities suspect there is some degree of community transmission.

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