China News Service, September 8. According to Reuters, the Egyptian Ministry of Health issued a statement on September 7, local time, saying that the country had discovered the first case of monkeypox.

The data picture shows the monkeypox virus-positive specimen.

  The Egyptian Ministry of Health said the patient was a 42-year-old Egyptian man with residency in a European country.

He is currently in hospital isolation and is in stable condition.