South Australia's Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier announced the state has detected its first monkeypox case in a returned overseas traveller.
“From a South Australian perspective, this is somebody who picked up the infection overseas, saw the health advice and got tested,” she said.In this Centres for Disease Control and Prevention handout graphic, symptoms of one of the first known cases of the monkeypox virus are shown on a patient's hand. Photo Courtesy of CDC/Getty Images.
There have now been 11 cases of monkeypox detected across Australia and more than 3,400 cases identified across 50 countries outside of Africa. "I'm concerned about sustained transmission because it would suggest that the virus establishing itself and it could move into high risk groups including children, the immunocompromised and pregnant women," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
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