In Spain, the majority of the country's 30 people who have been diagnosed with monkeypox are said to have contracted it from a specific sauna in the nation's capital city, as reported in The Daily Mirror. It comes as a total of 20 cases of the viral condition, which is not normally found outside of Africa, have now been confirmed in the UK - with other incidences of the disease also being recorded across Western Europe, as well as in Australia, the US and Canada.
Separate monkeypox outbreaks in Europe have been linked to a fetish festival and a sauna superspreader event.