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An outbreak of the viral disease monkeypox in Europe and North America is being watched closely by health experts across the globe.

The United Kingdom, Portugal, and Spain are some of the European countries that are seeing cases spread.

The disease is common in tropical rainforest areas - mostly in remote parts of Central and West Africa. Monkeypox is usually mild but there are different strains and different fatality rates, in some cases going up to 10 per cent.

Newsday spoke to Professor Anne Rimoin who is Director of the UCLA Centre for Global聽and Immigrant Health, and has worked on monkeypox for 20 years.

(Picture: Centre for Disease Control and Prevention handout graphic, symptoms of one of the first known cases of the monkeypox virus are shown on a patient's hand in 2003 in the United States. Credit: CDC/Getty Images)