The Department of Health is urging individuals with suspected Mpox disease formally known as Monkey symptoms to seek screening and testing for early diagnosis and effective treatment to prevent further spread.
This comes after the country recorded its second laboratory-confirmed case
According to the health department, this latest case involves a 39-year-old male who was admitted to a hospital in Durban. He presented with no travel history to countries currently experiencing the outbreak.
The department added that it is currently working closely with the province and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases NICD to activate contact tracing and case finding to identify and assess individuals who may have been in contact with the patient to prevent further transmission.
This will also assist to establish if the second case was in contact with the first case confirmed in Gauteng earlier this month, the Health Department said in a statement .
