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Health Ministry confirms 3rd monkeypox case in Israel
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This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. A leading doctor who chairs a World Health Organization expert group described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as 'a random event' that might be explained by risky sexual behavior at two recent mass events in Europe. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/ CDC via AP, File)
The Health Ministry says it has confirmed the third case of monkeypox in Israel.
According to a ministry statement, the 34-year-old was hospitalized at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital with monkeypox symptoms after returning from overseas. It doesn’t specify where he had been.
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