All his primary contacts, including his parents, the eleven passengers who were on the plane, the car driver, the taxi driver and the doctors and staff of a private hospital in Kollam have also been quarantined. It’s time for the virus to disappear… The minister said that the infected man himself suspected the infection because one of his closest friends was infected abroad. That he was as careful as covering his body while traveling from UAE to Thiruvananthapuram.
He was treated at a private hospital in Kollam with symptoms of fever, headache and ulcers. He was taken to the National Hospital for suspicion.
The samples collected from the man were sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune and the results came in overnight. The patient is already in the Government Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram. He underwent treatment for…
The samples collected from the man were sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune and the results came in overnight.
The patient is already in the Government Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram. He was treated by consulting experts. The central health team is expected to reach Kerala on Friday.
Kerala Health Department Nodal Officer Dr Amar Fettle told DH that the prompt detection of monkeypox cases in the state boosted vigilance in the state’s health system.
When and where is the test? Monkeypox can be tested in any polymerase chain reaction (…
A man returning from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been admitted to a hospital in Kerala after he developed symptoms of monkeypox, state health minister Veena George said on Thursday. The minister said his samples were collected and sent to the National Institute of Virology for testing.
According to him, the disease can only be confirmed after receiving the test results.
Without giving further details, George said the man showed symptoms of monkeypox and that he had been in close contact with monkeypox patients abroad.
So far, no cases of monkeypox virus have been reported in India. As of July 11, the US had reported nearly 800 cases of the virus, with the global tally reaching more than 8,200 in 57 countries. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), monkeypox is a zoonotic virus (a virus transmitted from animals to humans) with symptoms similar to those previously seen in monkeypox patients, although clinically less severe.
With the eradication of smallpox in the 1980s and the subsequent end of smallpox vaccination, smallpox became a major public health orthopedic virus.
According to the World Health Organization, this is the first time in the current series of reported outbreaks that a chain of transmission has been recorded in Europe without a known epidemiological link to West or Central Africa. Monkeypox is reported to be endemic in many other Central and West African countries such as Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone.
