COPENHAGEN, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Denmark has reported its first female case of monkeypox, the country's Ministry of Health announced on Friday afternoon. The woman is one of five new cases of the disease in Denmark in the last 24 hours.
"This is an isolated case of infection in a woman, which the Agency for Patient Safety is tracing. It is the Statens Serum Institut's (SSI) assessment that with the current number of cases, individual cases of infection can be expected to spread to other groups," said Health Minister Magnus Heunicke.
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