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  • 2021-07-13 (xsd:date)
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  • Old photos circulate in false posts about monkeypox outbreak in Singapore (en)
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  • Two photos have been shared in multiple posts on Facebook alongside a claim they show people infected with monkeypox in Singapore. The posts go on to claim there has been a new outbreak of monkeypox in 2021. The claim is false: the photos have circulated online in reports about monkeypox in Nigeria since at least 2018. There have been no official reports of a monkeypox outbreak in Singapore as of July 13, 2021. A screenshot of an online report was shared in this Facebook post on May 15, 2021. Screenshot of the misleading post taken on June 29, 2021 The screenshot shows an Indonesian-language caption that translates to English as: Be Careful Monkeypox has already entered Batam. Batam is an Indonesian island close to Singapore. The photo was also shared with a similar claim by Facebook users in Chinese , Malaysian and Indonesian languages. The claim, however, is false. The report shown in the misleading posts is from 2019. The report shown in the screenshot is headlined: Man Tests Positive For Monkeypox in Singapore, 23 People Quarantined For 21 Days. It was published here by Malaysia-based news website World of Buzz on May 10, 2019. The monkeypox case in Singapore was also reported here by the city-based media outlet Channel NewsAsia on May 9, 2019. Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) told AFP on June 29, 2021: There have been no confirmed cases of monkeypox notified to MOH since the previous imported case in 2019. MOH monitors infectious diseases in the city-state here . Old images One of the photos, which shows a person's feet, was used as an illustration in this report about monkeypox in Nigeria. It was published by US-based media outlet Face2Face Africa on March 17, 2018. The other photo, which shows a person's hand, appeared in this article published by the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal in June 2018. It is titled: Reemergence of Human Monkeypox in Nigeria, 2017. The photo’s caption reads: Papulopustular rash on hand (A) ... of patient with monkeypox. AFP debunked misleading posts about a monkeypox case in Singapore in 2019. (en)
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