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Khairy Jamaluddin during a virtual press conference conducted via Zoom.

More than a dozen countries where monkeypox is unusual, mostly in Europe, have reported at least one confirmed case, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in an epidemiological note released Wednesday night.

This handout photo provided by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention was taken in 1997 during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. - AFP

Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said Malaysia supported reforms towards an international health architecture that would avoid the moral failures in the response to Covid-19. - Photo: BERNAMA

Malaysian Medical Association president Dr Koh Kar Chai says the public should be reminded that dengue remains a bigger "menace". 

Monkeypox is a rare but potentially serious viral illness that typically begins with flu-like illness and swelling of the lymph nodes and progresses to a widespread rash on the face and body, according to the CDC.

Are we burying our heads in the sand? (Cover art by Darsh Kanda)

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A treatment room at a monkeypox quarantine area of the centre of the International medical NGO Doctors Without Borders in Zomea Kaka, the Lobaya region, in the Central African Republic on Oct 18, 2018. - AFP

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