“We received information from Santa Cruz, where the first case of monkeypox was confirmed to us,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
We are talking about a 38-year-old patient, his infection was confirmed by laboratory tests.
Earlier in Peru, the first case of human infection with monkeypox was detected.
World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency.
Head of the Department of Virology, Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education, Doctor of Medicine