KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — The Health Ministry (MOH) has identified one new case of Mox that was reported yesterday, involving a Malaysian man aged 24.

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 27 — The Health Ministry (MOH) has confirmed a second case of monkeypox (mpox) virus infection of the Clade II variety in Malaysia this year, involving a 34-year-old local man.

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 17 — The Health Ministry (MOH) detected one positive case of the mpox clade II variant yesterday.

DUNGUN, Aug 24 — The government has activated a special operations room at the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) since last Friday (August 16), to monitor and prevent the spread of the monkeypox (mpox) outbreak.

MANILA, Aug 21 — The Philippines' health minister said a recently detected mpox case in the Southeast Asian nation is of the mild Clade Two variant and not the newer variant that has spread rapidly in Africa.

GEORGE TOWN, Aug 20 — The government has not planned to implement a vaccination programme for monkeypox or mpox for the people of this country, said Deputy Health Minister Datuk Lukanisman Awang Sauni.

KINSHASA, Aug 20 — The ongoing mpox outbreak has been declared a "continental emergency," according to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba.

PESHAWAR, Aug 16 — Pakistan's Health Ministry has confirmed at least one case of the mpox virus in a patient who had returned from a Gulf country, it said today, as provincial health authorities reported they had detected at least three cases.

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 30 — Five new cases of monkeypox (mpox), involving local men, have been detected in Malaysia from October 31 to November 29, bringing the cumulative number of cases to nine.

By Amar Shah Mohsen KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 29 — Two monkeypox cases have been detected in Selangor last month, the Health Ministry confirmed today.  Deputy Health Minister Lukanisman Awang Sauni said in total, the country has reported nine cases since July this year, with the capital city...

JAKARTA, Oct 23 — Indonesia's Ministry of Health confirmed the presence of seven active monkeypox cases in Indonesia, all detected in Jakarta.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 25 — The Health Ministry (MOH) today confirmed there are two cases of monkeypox in the country.

SEOUL, April 8 — Health authorities reported the nation's first locally transmitted case of monkeypox on Saturday, bringing the total number of infections to six.

BUENOS AIRES, Nov 29 — Argentina recorded its first death from monkeypox when an adult male with underlying pathologies died in a hospital here, the Health Ministry announced Monday.

REUTERS, Nov 23 — The World Health Organization is planning to rename monkeypox, designating it as "MPOX" in an effort to destigmatize the virus that gained a foothold in the United States earlier this year, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

HANOI, Nov 14 — Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has added monkeypox to the Group B infectious diseases with other dangerous, infectious diseases capable of spreading quickly and possibly causing death.

HO CHI MINH CITY, Oct 20 — A woman returning from Dubai has tested positive for monkeypox, making her the second case detected in Vietnam, according to the city’s Health Department.

LOS ANGELES, Sept 20 — Nearly 24,000 monkeypox cases had been confirmed in the United States (US) as of Monday, according to the latest data of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

REUTERS, Aug 26 — The number of monkeypox cases reported globally declined by 21 per cent last week, after a month-long trend of rising infections, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.

JAKARTA, Aug 12 — Indonesia has confirmed its first monkeypox infection, detected in a person who had returned from an unidentified country with documented cases, a health ministry spokesman said on Saturday.