The first case of the rare disease has been identified in SA. There is currently a large outbreak of the disease, globally that has been flagged by the World Health Organization. Monkeypox is, however, very different from Covid-19 and not highly ...
In this 1971 Center For Disease Control handout photo, monkeypox-like lesions are shown on the arm and leg of a female child in Bondua, Liberia.
“This is the first time that many monkeypox cases and clusters have been reported concurrently in non-endemic and endemic countries in widely disparate geographical areas. Most reported cases so far have been identified through sexual health or other health services in primary or secondary health-care facilities and have involved mainly, but not exclusively, men who have sex with men,” a statement by the WHO reads.
A medical laboratory technician inactivates suspected monkeypox samples to be tested at the microbiology laboratory of La Paz Hospital on June 06, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. Europe is at the centre of the monkeypox virus outbreak, the World Health Organisation reported 780 confirmed cases with Britain, Spain and Portugal reporting the largest numbers of patients.
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