The United States on Thursday became the first country to declare a public health emergency over the virus, the only thing is: America's outbreak is four times smaller than the largest outbreak in , with statistics showing that it has the eighth-highest case count per capita, official figures show.The U.S. has detected the most monkeypox cases out of any country, with its total reaching 7,102 Thursday — more than a third higher than the 4,577 detected in the next highest country, Spain. But when this tally is considered per population — a more accurate measure because it takes into account America's much larger head count — the U.S. ranks eighth, with 21 cases per million people. That's equivalent to one in 47,000 people having a confirmed infection to date. Conversely, in Spain, the number is 96 per million or one in 10,000, also higher than every American state.
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