This was reported in the press service of Rospotrebnadzor.
“The first case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Russia.
The disease was detected in a young man who returned from a trip to Europe and applied to a medical facility with a characteristic rash," TASS reported.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Committee had previously recognized the emergency nature of the monkeypox outbreak, but did not agree that it was an emergency of international concern.
Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, told RT that the scale of the spread of monkeypox among humans poses a real danger.
Chief Researcher, National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F.
Gamalei, Professor of Virology Anatoly Altshtein spoke about the situation with monkeypox in an interview with NSN.