Taiwan reported its first case of monkeypox, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Friday.
According to the Taiwan Center for Disease Control, the case is a twenty-year-old man who returned from a study trip in Germany, which lasted from January 2022 until June, and left Germany for his flight home on June 16. On June 20, he felt a high temperature and sore throat and muscles… So he went to the hospital where it was discovered that he had monkeypox. The patient is currently in isolation and receiving treatment. His relatives did not show any symptoms.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced that the number of confirmed cases of monkeypox in the world exceeded 3.2 thousand cases.
The disease known since 1970 is from the smallpox family, which was eradicated about forty years ago, but it is less dangerous than it.
Taiwan confirms first monkeypox case
