Authorities in Australia, France and Germany confirmed their first cases of monkeypox on Friday as the normally rare disease continues to crop up in a growing number of countries around the globe. The Australian state of Victoria recorded its first case of monkeypox, in a man his 30s who had recently returned from Britain. Earlier on Friday, neighbouring New South Wales’ health authorities said they had identified another “probable” case of monkeypox, in a man in his 40s who had recently returned to Sydney from Europe. A case was also detected in the German city of Munich for the first time si…