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South Africa confirms first monkeypox case, not linked to travel
Reuters
June 23, 20226:01 AM EDTLast Updated 3 hours ago
JOHANNESBURG, June 23 (Reuters) - South Africa's Health Minister Joe Phaahla said on Thursday that he had been notified by the country's laboratory services that they had confirmed the first monkeypox case in South Africa.
The patient was a 30-year-old male from Johannesburg who had no travel history, "meaning that this cannot be attributed to having been acquired outside South Africa," Phaahla told a news conference.
A process of contact tracing was under way, he added...
South Africa confirms first monkeypox case, not linked to travel
Reuters
June 23, 20226:01 AM EDTLast Updated 3 hours ago
JOHANNESBURG, June 23 (Reuters) - South Africa's Health Minister Joe Phaahla said on Thursday that he had been notified by the country's laboratory services that they had confirmed the first monkeypox case in South Africa.
The patient was a 30-year-old male from Johannesburg who had no travel history, "meaning that this cannot be attributed to having been acquired outside South Africa," Phaahla told a news conference.
A process of contact tracing was under way, he added...
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