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Sudan reports its first monkeypox case 

Monkeypox.

A surge in monkeypox infections has been reported since early May outside the West and Central African countries.

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Sudan has detected its first monkeypox case, health authorities said Monday, after the World Health Organization last month declared the disease a public health emergency of international concern.

The health ministry announced "registering the first confirmed case of monkeypox in a 16-year-old student in West Darfur state in Sudan".