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2022.07.07 07:22 GMT+8

Ecuador confirms first case of monkeypox

Updated 2022.07.07 07:22 GMT+8
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Ecuador's Public Health Ministry confirmed the country's first case of monkeypox on Wednesday in a 30-year-old man in the southwestern coastal province of Guayas.

The National Institute of Public Health Research confirmed the case after the patient displayed characteristic symptoms such as fever, malaise and skin lesions resembling pimples or blisters.

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency
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