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Passengers walk past the mpox awareness banner at Anna International Airport terminal in Chennai on August 21, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad. Photo by Bernama

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UPM virologist Professor Dr Zamberi Sekawi said mpox was different from Covid-19, which spreads more easily through droplets produced by saliva when talking or coughing.

Democratic Republic of Congo Health minister Samuel-Roger Kamba addresses a press conference in Kinshasa on August 19, 2024. Cases of the mpox virus are rising in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the central African country awaits vaccines from the United States and Japan, the health minister said on Monday. - Photo by AFP

Although mpox is not as dangerous as Covid-19, the public is advised to remain vigilant against the risk of infection. Photo by National Institute For Communicable Diseases, inset from left: Dr Zainal, Dr Wan Mohd Zahiruddin.

This file photo taken on August 16, 2022 shows a patient showing his hand with a sore caused by an infection of the monkeypox virus, in the isolation area for monkeypox patients at the Arzobispo Loayza hospital, in Lima, Peru. - File photo by AFP

This file photo taken on August 16, 2022 shows a patient showing his hand with a sore caused by an infection of the monkeypox virus, in the isolation area for monkeypox patients at the Arzobispo Loayza hospital, in Lima, Peru. - Photo by AFP

This file photo taken on August 16, 2022 shows a patient showing his hand with a sore caused by an infection of the monkeypox virus, in the isolation area for monkeypox patients at the Arzobispo Loayza hospital, in Lima, Peru. - File photo by AFP

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