Gabon’s Health Ministry said it has recorded its first case of the Mpox.
The ministry in a statement, however, did not specify which variant of the viral infection was recorded.
Recall that the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared mpox a global public health emergency, after an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo spread to neighbouring countries and a new form of the virus, clade Ib, triggered concerns about the speed of transmission.
The Gabonese ministry added that it had officially declared its first case of mpox on Thursday, when a 30-year-old man tested positive after returning from Uganda and developing a fever and skin lesions consistent with the disease.
