The patient was a 33-year-old Filipino male who had no travel history outside the Philippines.
MANILA - The Philippines has detected a new case of the mpox virus in the country, the first since December 2023, its health department said on Aug 19, adding it was awaiting test results before being able to determine the strain.
"We are awaiting sequencing results and will update once available," its spokesperson Albert Domingo said when asked about the strain., its highest form of alert, following an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo that had spread to neighbouring countries. The new case in the Philippines is the 10th laboratory-confirmed case the health department has detected. Its first case was in July 2022.
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