Israel’s Health Ministry reported a fourth case of monkeypox in the country on Thursday.
The case is of a 28-year-old man who recently returned from abroad and arrived at Sheba Medical Center in central Israel with symptoms of the viral illness, according to the ministry.
A clinical sample was then tested at the Israel Institute for Biological Research, where the suspicion of monkeypox was verified, he added.
The three previous cases of monkeypox in Israel have been detected since May 21, all of them men in their 30s.
The ministry again urged people who developed fever and blistering rashes and returned from abroad or were near someone suspected of being infected to seek medical attention.
Monkeypox is common in wild animals like rodents and primates, and can also infect humans.
Symptoms of the disease are: rash, fever, headache, muscle aches, back pain, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion. The rash eventually forms scabs, which then fall off, indicating that the person is no longer infectious.