Ecuador confirms first case of monkeypox

QUITO, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador's Public Health Ministry on Wednesday confirmed the country's first case of monkeypox, in a 30-year-old man who lives in the southwest coastal province of Guayas.

The National Institute of Public Health Research carried out the tests confirming the virus after the patient displayed characteristic symptoms such as fever, malaise and skin lesions resembling pimples or blisters.