PH confirms first monkeypox case
This undated electron microscopic (EM) handout image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a monkeypox virion, obtained from a clinical sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. It was a thin section image from a human skin sample. On the left were mature, oval-shaped virus particles, and on the right were the crescents, and spherical particles of immature virions. Cynthia S. Goldsmith | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | AFP The Philippines has detected its first case of the monkeypox virus, the Department of Health (DOH) announced on Friday, July 29. “The DOH detected the first confirmed case of monkeypox in the country. The case is a 31-year-old Filipino national who arrived from abroad last July 19,” DOH Officer-in-Charge Undersecretary for Public Health Services Team Beverly Ho during the Malacanang press briefing. Ho said that the case involved a 31-year-old Filipino national who arrived from abroad last July 19. “The case has prior travel to countries with documented monkeypox cases,” she added.
PH confirms first monkeypox case
This undated electron microscopic (EM) handout image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a monkeypox virion, obtained from a clinical sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. It was a thin section image from a human skin sample. On the left were mature, oval-shaped virus particles, and on the right were the crescents, and spherical particles of immature virions. Cynthia S. Goldsmith | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | AFP The Philippines has detected its first case of the monkeypox virus, the Department of Health (DOH) announced on Friday, July 29. “The DOH detected the first confirmed case of monkeypox in the country. The case is a 31-year-old Filipino national who arrived from abroad last July 19,” DOH Officer-in-Charge Undersecretary for Public Health Services Team Beverly Ho during the Malacanang press briefing. Ho said that the case involved a 31-year-old Filipino national who arrived from abroad last July 19. “The case has prior travel to countries with documented monkeypox cases,” she added.