The Philippines announces on Monday, August 19, that it detected one new mpox or monkeypox case, the first in the country for 2024 and its 10th case overall.
Full story: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/mpox-case-doh-report-august-19-2024/
Full story: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/mpox-case-doh-report-august-19-2024/
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00:00The Philippines announces on Monday, August 19 that it detected one new Mpox or Monkeypox case, the first in the country for 2024 and its 10th case overall
00:10This less than a week after the World Health Organization declared Mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years
00:17The new case is from Metro Manila and was reported to the Department of Health on Sunday, August 18
00:23This is the case of a three-year-old boy from the Philippines who has a history of Mpox
00:32He was born in Manila, Africa, and was born in a foreign country. We were able to isolate our first case
00:39The patient had a fever over a week ago before getting a, quote, distinct rash on the following areas
00:46The DOH says symptoms also include the following
00:51Mpox patients can either stay isolated at home or get confined in a hospital upon the advice of a doctor