According to NDTV, citing doctors, the patient turned out to be a 50-year-old resident of the United States.
According to preliminary data, the American became infected during a recent trip to the Netherlands.
No possible contact of the infected person with other people has been reported.
“Fortunately, he is in a stable condition and is in preventive isolation.
We hope that he will recover without complications, ”said Hugo Lopez-Gatel, deputy head of the Mexican Ministry of Health.
Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said that there are risks of importing monkeypox to Russia, but they are small.
She also noted that today there is no need to vaccinate all Russians against this infection.
The World Health Organization advises against countries imposing travel restrictions due to the monkeypox outbreak outside endemic states.