JAKARTA - South Korea recorded 16 new cases of monkeypox in the first week of May, increasing the total number of cases in the country to 60, according to health authorities.
A total of 11 cases were reported from the capital Seoul, then two from Gyeonggi Province and three others from Incheon, Busan and Gwangju, according to a report by Yonhap News Agency, citing the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.
Of the 16 patients, 14 of them are South Korean citizens and two foreigners, and none of them have traveled abroad in the past three weeks, according to the agency.
As reported by ANTARA, Monday, May 8, South Korea recorded the first case of monkeypox in June last year and four additional cases until March. The first five cases were related to overseas travel.
Monkeypox is transmitted to humans through close contact with people or infected animals, or with objects contaminated with the virus.
Patients usually start showing symptoms such as fever, enlargement of lymph nodes, back pain and muscle aches before rash on the skin, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 86 thousand cases of viral disease and 119 deaths since January 2022 worldwide.
Last year, WHO changed the name monkeypox to Mpox, saying the disease's name sounded like "racist language and stigmatized."
The two names will be used simultaneously in one year while the term "roepox" will gradually be removed, the organization added.
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