New Delhi-SANA
India announced the infection of a 31-year-old woman with monkeypox, the first case of a woman recorded in the country, the fourth in Delhi and the ninth in total.
And the Indian NDTV television quoted the health authorities as saying that the infected woman, a Nigerian, was not yet known whether she had traveled abroad recently, and that she had not had any contact with any of the other three injured people in the capital, who are also Nigerians.
She pointed out that all the infected have similar symptoms, they suffer from fever, typical rashes and ulcers in the mouth and thighs.
The World Health Organization had recently declared a "global health emergency" after recording more than 18,000 cases of monkeypox and 5 deaths in 78 countries, mostly on the European continent.
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