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3-year-old has HFMD, not monkeypox, says health DG | The Malaysian Insight

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3-year-old has HFMD, not monkeypox, says health DG

Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah says samples taken from a three-year-child has tested positive for HFMD but negative for monkeypox. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, May 26, 2022.

RESULTS from the National Public Health Laboratory has confirmed that a three-year-old child rumoured to have contracted monkeypox is infected with hand, foot and mouth disease , Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said. He said the child tested positive for Coxsackievirus A6 which causes HFMD, and negative for monkeypox as well as several other viruses.

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