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The Department of Health on Monday announced that a new mpox case has been detected in the Philippines, bringing the total caseload to 10. Reported to the DOH on August 18, 2024, it was the first mpox case detected in the country this year, the last case being in December 2023. “The case is a 33 year old male Filipino national with no travel history outside the Philippines but with close, intimate contact three weeks before symptom onset,” the DOH said.
The patient was brought to a government hospital where specimens were collected from the skin lesions and tested via real-time polymerase chain reaction test. “PCR test results are positive for Monkeypox viral DNA,” the DOH said. According to the World Health Organization , symptoms of mpox include skin rash or mucosal lesions, accompanied by fever, headache, muscle aches, back pain, low energy, and swollen lymph nodes.
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