West African Money pox is supposed to be what the current western Moneypox came from.

So much for the scary death rates. Ignore mortality rates of 1%, 10% and all the other numbers plucked from thin air.  From Stat:

Pressed yesterday, a WHO official said she didn’t think the outbreak outside Africa would lead to a pandemic, Reuters reported. "We don't know but we don't think so," Rosamund Lewis said. "At the moment, we are not concerned of a global pandemic." The WHO said that 23 countries have reported 257 confirmed cases and roughly 120 suspected cases — a rapid accumulation in an unprecedented outbreak first detected earlier this month. Monkeypox is considered endemic in roughly 12 countries in West and Central Africa.

Nigeria, population 206 million, has experienced a money pox outbreak since 2017.  Nigeria reported the first death this year from money pox yesterday, the Associated Press says.

Update June 4

There are 33 diagnosed money pox cases in France. Almost all are mild. There are no reported deaths outside of Africa.  Repeat: no reported deaths outside of Africa. That means we have no idea what the mortality rate is except that it is very very low. We don't even know what it is about this disease that might cause a death.  SARS-1 had a 10% mortality and was considered extremely serious.  SARS-2 has probably about a 0.25% mortality and we all know of people who died after getting it.

With not a single death outside Africa, how can anyone believe the fairytale that money pox is somewhere on the lethality scale between SARS-1 and SARS-2?

With money pox, it seems you only die if you live in the African jungle.  And no one seems to know anything about how it might kill you.  If even CDC and WHO have not yet provided an explanation about what is so serious about money pox, well, then, it isn't serious.

So far, the illness seems closest to shingles: with headache and systemic symptoms initially, and then blisters which last 1-3 weeks. The blister fluid contains virus particles, and you can spread the infection until all the blisters have dried up. 

There may be more scarring due to money pox (190,000 BPs) than due to shingles (which is also due to a large, double-stranded DNA virus of about 125,000 base pairs).