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Cyprus records its first monkeypox case - health ministry

FILE PHOTO: Test tubes labelled "Monkeypox virus positive and negative" are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Cyprus has recorded its first case of monkeypox, the island's health ministry said on Tuesday.

The infected man was 40 and had been travelling recently, the ministry said in a statement. The man was being treated at a hospital in the capital Nicosia, it added.

(Reporting By Michele Kambas; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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