Jordan's Health Ministry announced on Monday that the country registered the first case of mpox in 2024.

The state-run Petra news agency quoted the ministry as saying that the infected individual is a 33-year-old non-Jordanian male resident who developed mpox rash and was then diagnosed with the disease through a laboratory test.

It said that the man, isolated at Al Basheer Hospitals in Amman, is in stable medical condition.

According to the ministry, the case was not the first for the kingdom, as it recorded one, formerly known as monkeypox, back in 2022.

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