This brings the country’s number of mpox cases in three months to two, as local media reported Wednesday.
The Health Ministry said the latest case is about a 34-year-old male Malaysian who had traveled abroad in the past 21 days, Free Malaysia Today reported. The patient also has been quarantined and remains in stable condition.
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The first mpox case in the country was reported in September. The WHO declared mpox as the second public health emergency of international concern in two years last August because of the new spread of the variant that left the Democratic Republic of Congo and moved to some neighboring countries.
Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, was so named by the WHO in 2022 so as not to convey racist and stigmatizing understandings. This can come to humans through the close contact with an infectious person, small wild animals, or contaminated materials.
Common symptoms include rashes or lesions, flu-like fever, head and muscle aches, back pain, general weakness, and swollen lymph nodes.