Public Health France updates the number of people infected with the monkeypox virus in France twice a week. The last count reports 277 confirmed cases, identified for the vast majority in Ile-de-France. The health authorities also specify that, for the first time in France, a woman has contracted monkeypox – the other previously confirmed cases all concerned men whose median age is 34 years. The circumstances in which this woman was infected have not been specified by Public Health France.
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