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This undated electron microscopic (EM) handout image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a monkeypox virion, obtained from a clinical sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. - Photo: AFP

The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported early Thursday some 96,600 "fevered cases" in 24 hours, for a total of 3.8 million cases since late April. No new deaths were announced, with 69 fatalities as of late last week.(Photo by STR / KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) / South Korea OUT

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Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the ministry will launch a National Health Screening initiative this July to detect non-communicable diseases (NCD) in this country. - Photo: BERNAMA

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

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.

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

A child infected with monkeypox is treated at the Doctors Without Borders centre in Zomea Kaka, in the Lobaya region, in the Central African Republic, on Oct 18, 2018. - AFP