Europe-returned man, 30, is Japan’s first case of monkeypox

The contaminated individual is a person in his 30s who has returned from Europe and is at present in a hospital, Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike informed reporters.

The monkeypox virus spreads by way of shut contact (Representational)

Japan detected its first case of the monkeypox virus in Tokyo, the capital’s governor mentioned on Monday.

The contaminated individual is a person in his 30s who has returned from Europe and is at present in a hospital, Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike informed reporters.

The World Health Organization on Saturday mentioned the quickly spreading monkeypox outbreak represents a world well being emergency.

So far this yr there have been greater than 16,000 monkeypox circumstances in additional than 75 international locations, and 5 deaths in Africa.

The virus spreads by way of shut contact and tends to trigger flu-like signs and pus-filled pores and skin lesions.

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