File photo: A section of skin tissue, harvested from a lesion on the skin of a monkey, that had been infected with monkeypox virus, is seen at 50X magnification on day four of rash development in 1968 Reuters
The health authorities in Bangladesh have asked the country’s airports and land ports to screen incoming passengers for signs of monkeypox infection amid growing global concern about an outbreak.
Global health officials have sounded the alarm over rising cases in Europe and elsewhere of monkeypox, a type of viral infection more common to west and central Africa.
As of Friday, some 80 monkeypox cases had been confirmed and an additional 50 were under investigation in 11 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
