Philippines: 2025 Mpox

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Source: https://www.manilatimes.net/2025/01/...x-case/2044742


Baguio City detects second mpox case
By Gaby B. Keith
January 27, 2025

BAGUIO CITY — A new case of monkey pox or mpox here has been detected, the City Health Services Office (CHSO) surveillance team said on Saturday.

The second laboratory-confirmed mpox case was reported to the Department of Health on Jan. 18.

The patient is a 22-year-old male, Baguio resident, with no travel history outside the Philippines but with close contact two weeks before the onset of symptoms...

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Source: https://www.philstar.com/nation/2025...ox-cases-now-4

Baguio Mpox cases now 4
Artemio Dumlao - The Philippine Star
February 8, 2025 | 12:00am

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — Two new Mpox cases have been recorded in this city, bringing to four the number of laboratory-confirmed infections.

Donnabel Panes, chief of the city health services office’s epidemiology and surveillance unit, said the new cases, both 21 years old, have been isolated and are nearing recovery.

Panes said the patients are being closely monitored and contact tracing is being conducted to prevent the spread of the disease...