Mpox virus now in Pakistan, health authorities say

FILE - Vials of single doses of the Jynneos vaccine for mpox are seen at a vaccinations site on Aug. 29, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

Pakistan's health ministry has confirmed at least one case of the mpox virus in a patient who had returned from a Gulf country, it said on Friday, as provincial health authorities reported they had detected three cases.