He did not indicate the places of detection of the suspected cases, nor the identity of the three people.
The Ministry of Health has just published a “surveillance and response plan” for the detection and treatment of cases of monkeypox and for health protection.
Monkeypox, a less dangerous cousin of smallpox eradicated forty years ago, has made its sudden appearance in recent weeks in countries where it is normally only very rare: Europe and North America.
As cases continue to rise outside endemic areas of Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday confirmed a situation “atypical“, but she thought it possible to “stopper“this transmission of the disease between humans.
