“The Massachusetts Department of Public Health today (May 18. -
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) confirmed one case of monkeypox infection in an adult male who recently visited Canada,” the statement said.
The patient was hospitalized, his condition is assessed as satisfactory.
Previously, nine cases of monkeypox were identified in the UK.
Rospotrebnadzor said that the risk of importing monkeypox to Russia is extremely low, and all necessary measures are being taken to prevent the importation of the disease.