The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has refuted the assertion suggesting that the Western Region has recorded its first case of monkeypox.In a press release signed by the Western Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Yaw Ofori Yeboah noted that an individual in the Ahanta West Municipality reported to a health facility with blisters but was misinterpreted as a monkeypox.

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After a thorough probe, he says, the case is not suggestive of the said disease, therefore, the reports of such condition purported should be disregarded.<img class="wp-image-10032092626" title="No monkeypox detected in Western Region - Ghana Health Service" src="

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public about further developments.Meanwhile, the UN Health agency has revealed that Monkeypox is caused by a larger group of viruses known as the Orthopoxviruses Smallpox.So far about 237 cases have been confirmed in worldwide and assured that plans are ongoing to contain the virus.Source: The Independent Ghana

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