The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has refuted the assertion suggesting that the Western Region has recorded its first case of monkeypox.
In a press release signed by the Western Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Yaw Ofori Yeboah noted that an individual in the Ahanta West Municipality reported to a health facility with blisters but was misinterpreted as a monkeypox.
After a thorough probe, he says, the case is not suggestive of the said disease, therefore, the reports of such condition purported should be disregarded.
Dr. Ofori Yeboah further added that GHS is on high alert and will provide updates to the public about further developments.
Meanwhile, the UN Health agency has revealed that Monkeypox is caused by a larger group of viruses known as the Orthopoxviruses Smallpox.
So far about 237 cases have been confirmed in worldwide and assured that plans are ongoing to contain the virus.
Source: The Independent Ghana