SINGAPORE — On June 21, the Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed it had detected an imported case of monkeypox infection in Singapore, adding to the over 2,000 confirme
The World Health Organisation said 98 per cent of confirmed cases of monkeypox —
The majority of monkeypox cases in 2022 have been reported from Europe, said WHO. Most of which are in the United Kingdom, with 524 cases confirmed by the organisation as of June 15. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation News, however, reported that health authorities in Congo have confirmed 465 cases of the disease and nine deaths on May 31.
The man was in Singapore between June 15 and 17, and again on June 19. He tested positive on June 20 and is now warded at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases . In May 2019, a 38-year-old Nigerian man in Singapore was found to have the virus, and was believed to have caught it after consuming bush meat while attending a wedding in Nigeria where had been working.An NCID spokesperson told TODAY in May that the 2019through a polymerase chain reaction test and studying the sample under an electron microscope.
This was similarly highlighted by the WHO on June 17, which said:"There is the high likelihood that further cases will be found without identified chains of transmission, including potentially in other population groups." Professor Dale Fisher, senior consultant at National University Hospital's division of infectious diseases, added that a surge in monkeypox cases is unlikely in Singapore because the country has good diagnostics access, contact tracing and quarantine systems.
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