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JOHANNESBURG — A 37-year-old man has died in South Africa from the viral infection mpox, becoming the first fatality in the country after five laboratory-confirmed cases were recorded over the past month, the health minister said on Wednesday.The man died in Tembisa Hospital on Monday, Health Minister Joe Phaahla told a news conference."One death is too many, especially from a preventable and manageable disease like mpox," he said.
South Africa's five confirmed mpox cases between May and June were in men aged 30 to 39 years old without travel history to countries experiencing an outbreak, suggesting local transmission, the minister said.The five cases were severe and required hospitalization, he said, adding "the cases have co-morbidities and have been identified as key populations, men who have sex with men."Two of those patients remain in hospital, he said.
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