BUDAPEST, June 1 — Hungary on Tuesday registered its first case of monkeypox, reported Anadolu Agency.

The Central European country’s chief medical officer, Cecilia Muller, said the patient is a 38-year-old man.

The zoonotic infection is caused by an orthopoxvirus and can be transmitted from animals to humans as well as human to human.

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