The Department of Health confirmed this on Monday.
The patient is a 38-year-old man from Cape Town – who experienced typical mpox symptoms, including headache, mpox lesions on the face, sore throat, muscle pain and light sensitivity.
The department’s Foster Mohale says the patient has no recent international travel history nor contact with a suspected or confirmed mpox case.
“The man sought for medical intervention at a Private medical practice in Cape Town. He was not admitted but urged to home isolate while waiting for test results. The results came back positive on Friday, 6 September.
“The outbreak response team in the province has been activated, contact tracing and monitoring activities are ongoing. This increases the total number of positive cases recorded in the country since the outbreak in May this year to 25 cases, including three deaths.
“Twelve of these were reported in Gauteng, eleven reported in KwaZulu-Natal, and now two in the Western Cape. The patient is home isolating and in a stable condition.”
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