, identified through laboratory testing on a 28-year-old male from the Western Cape.
The case follows three unlinked monkeypox cases reported from Gauteng, the Western Cape and Limpopo earlier this year. The men aged 30, 32 and 42 years have since completed self-isolation and a monitoring period without further symptoms and health complications.The WHO label – a “public health emergency of international concern ” – is designed to trigger a coordinated international response and could unlock funding to collaborate on sharing vaccines and treatments.
The viral disease has been spreading chiefly in men who have sex with men in the recent outbreak, outside Africa where it is endemic. Executive Director of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Professor Adrian Puren, says South Africans need not be alarmed by the cases that have been confirmed.
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