“The Ministry of Health reports the identification of the first confirmed case of monkeypox in Sudan,” TASS reports.
It is specified that monkeypox was found in a 16-year-old schoolboy.
Earlier, Rospotrebnadzor reported that Russia would send test systems for the detection of monkeypox to a number of African countries, in particular to Egypt, Uganda, Ethiopia and the Republic of the Congo.
World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency.
Head of the Department of Virology of the Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education, Doctor of Medical Sciences Elena Malinnikova, in an interview with Nation News, commented on the situation with monkeypox.