CAIRO – 30 May 2022: Egypt’s Minister of Higher Education and Acting Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar said that no cases of monkeypox virus have been reported in Egypt so far. He added that monkeypox virus was discovered in 1958, explaining that the virus that causes monkeypox is very close to the virus that causes smallpox, but it is less fatal and less contagious. On May 25, Abdel Ghaffar noted that the health ministry is following up the monkeypox worldwide. “The number of monkeypox cases mounted to 250 cases worldwide”, he added. Dr. Salman added, in a telephone interview with Egypt Can TV program, that monkeypox causes humans swollen lymph nodes and pimples appear on the face significantly.

Source: Libya Today May 30, 2022 07:51 UTC