Turkey reports first monkeypox case

Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced Thursday that Turkey’s first monkeypox case has been reported, a 37-year-old patient. Koca tweeted that the patient has immunodeficiency and is currently in isolation.

“Contact tracing work was conducted and no other cases were encountered,” the minister said, reiterating the fact that the disease spreads through “close physical contact.”

As of June 22 this year, 3,413 laboratory-confirmed monkeypox cases and one death have been reported to the WHO, from 50 countries. The countries with three-figure case numbers are Britain with 793 cases, Germany with 521, Spain has 520, Portugal with 317, France has 277, Canada has 210, the Netherlands has 167 and the United States with 142.