TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s health ministry on Wednesday reported the country’s first fatality from mpox.
The patient was a man in his 30s with a prior infection with HIV and no travel history, the ministry said in a statement.
Mpox is a viral infection that spreads through close contact, causing flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions. Most cases are mild but it can kill.
(Reporting by Rocky Swift; Editing by Alison Williams)
