Monkeypox – experts answer 10 common questions
This week, South Africa recorded its first case of monkeypox. We asked experts and consulted WHO and NICD documents to answer our top 10 questions about the disease.
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This week, South Africa recorded its first case of monkeypox. We asked experts and consulted WHO and NICD documents to answer our top 10 questions about the disease.
The recent Covid-19 pandemic has placed public health back in the global spotlight and has also served as a reminder that science is not undertaken in an ivory tower.
On Thursday morning, Health Minister Joe Phaahla announced that a 30-year-old man from Gauteng with no recent travel history had become the first person in South Africa to be diagnosed with monkeypox.
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