Health director-general, Datuk Dr Muhammad Radzi Abu Hassan, said that a confirmed case on July 26 involved a foreign man, while the second case was a local man who was a contact of the first mpox case, and was confirmed positive for mpox on July 29.“The first case involves a foreign man who has been living and working in Malaysia since April 2022. “He has a history of travelling to a country with reported cases of mpox on July 6 this year and returned to Malaysia on July 10.
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