Oval-shaped mature monkeypox virions (left) and spherical immature virions (right) obtained from a human skin sample. File photoCHISINAU, Oct 17 The Romanian Ministry of Health announced that a new case of monkeypox was diagnosed in the country. The first case of monkeypox was confirmed in Romania on June 13th. On October 3, vaccination against this disease started in the country. We are talking about a 44-year-old man from Bucharest. He is in isolation,” reads a message published on the website of the Ministry of Health. To date, 41 cases of infection with this disease have been registered in Romania. Recently, more than 50 countries have detected more than 5.1 thousand cases of this disease, while the ways of spreading the infection are not entirely clear to specialists. The World Health Organization's emergency committee has recognized the «emergency» of the monkeypox outbreak and called for control of the spread of the infection. smallpox
