The WHO has received information on more than 3,200 confirmed monkeypox cases and one death. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) is monitoring the outbreak of the disease around the world. 

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there is a need for intensified surveillance, but the authority has not yet decided whether to declare monkeypox a global health emergency.

So far, 48 countries have reported cases of monkeypox since May.

The illness has been circulating in central and west Africa for decades. Data from this part of the world shows that at least one version of the disease kills up to 10 per cent of people infected.

But the version of the disease seen in Europe and elsewhere has a fatality rate of less than 1 per cent.

Dr Tedors says there have been around 1,500 suspected cases of monkeypox this year in Central Africa and 70 deaths.

The WHO is calling on member states to share all information on the virus to support countries to contain transmission.