SOURCE OF SICKNESS This 2004 image released by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Monday, May 23, 2022, shows an ultrathin section electron-microscopic capture of the monkeypox virus. RKI IMAGE VIA AFP
SOURCE OF SICKNESS This 2004 image released by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Monday, May 23, 2022, shows an ultrathin section electron-microscopic capture of the monkeypox virus. RKI IMAGE VIA AFP

SEOUL: South Korea reported its first imported case of monkeypox on Wednesday, becoming the latest of about 40 countries — and the first in East Asia — to have identified the disease.

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