SA Health says the man is currently isolating at home while two close contacts have been told to get a monkeypox vaccine.

There is no threat to the wider community.

SA’s first monkeypox case was detected in June, also in a returned traveller.

The state received its first 900 doses of the vaccine last week with another 7000 expected later this year and 5500 in early 2023.

Monkeypox has been identified in more than 50 new countries outside central and west Africa where it is already endemic.

There have been 3400 cases of monkeypox and one death since the outbreak began in May, primarily in Europe.

-with AAP