According to the source, the patient recently returned from Portugal.

“According to the available epidemiological data, the risk to the general population is still low, as the disease is usually mild and characterized by relatively low contagiousness,” the report said.

Earlier, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a briefing that the total number of people infected with monkeypox in the current outbreak has exceeded 1,000.

Professor of Virology Anatoly Altshtein, Chief Researcher, National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F.

Gamalei, in an interview with NSN spoke about the situation with monkeypox.