Research Article

Estimating the Importation Risk of Mpox Virus in 2022 to Hong Kong, China

Table 2

Importation risk estimated during the study period.

LocationImportation risk (95% CI)

United States63.21% (32.41%, 94.73%)
United Kingdom29.17% (9.80%, 62.71%)
Canada17.27% (7.55%, 31.76%)
France9.21% (3.15%, 24.75%)
Germany8.18% (2.09%, 24.21%)
Netherlands5.10% (1.61%, 12.91%)
Luxembourg1.82% (0.94%, 3.61%)
Australia1.73% (1.04%, 3.05%)
Singapore1.70% (0.77%, 3.67%)
Belgium1.05% (0.48%, 2.07%)
Switzerland0.50% (0.28%, 0.86%)
Israel0.45% (0.25%, 0.76%)
Italy0.32% (0.14%, 0.73%)
Qatar0.24% (0.13%, 0.44%)
New Zealand0.11% (0.06%, 0.21%)
United Arab Emirates0.10% (0.01%, 0.36%)
Thailand0.06% (0, 0.10%)
Finland0.04% (0.01%, 0.12%)
Philippines0.01% (0, 0.02%)
Japan0.01% (0.01%, 0.02%)
South Korea0.01% (0, 0.02%)
Saudi Arabia0 (0, 0.01%)
India0 (0, 0)
Turkey0 (0, 0)
Indonesia0 (0, 0)

Note: We estimated the cumulative risk of importation (95% CI) from 25 regions as of September 6, 2022. The region in bold denotes the first case detected in HK who arrived from the Philippines after traveling in the US and Canada.