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India’s 1st Monkeypox case: 31-yr-old man, no foreign travel history

First Published: 24th July, 2022 18:07 IST

This is the fourth monkeypox case detected in India with the previous three being reported from Kerala.

Delhi on Sunday reported its first monkeypox case as a 31-year-old man with no foreign travel history was diagnosed with the disease.

The man had attended a stag party recently in Manali in Himachal Pradesh. A resident of West Delhi, the man was admitted to the Maulana Azad Medical College Hospital in New Delhi around three days ago after he showed symptoms of monkeypox.

His samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune on Saturday which came out positive

This is the fourth monkeypox case detected in India with the previous three being reported from Kerala.

The WHO had on Saturday declared monkeypox a global public health emergency of international concern. Monkeypox virus is transmitted from infected animals to humans via indirect or direct contact.

Human-to-human transmission can occur through direct contact with infectious skin or lesions, including face-to-face, skin-to-skin, and respiratory droplets.

Globally, over 16,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported from 75 countries and there have been five deaths so far due to the outbreak. In the WHO South-East Asia Region, besides India, one case has been detected in Thailand.

Meanwhile, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal urged the public not to panic. Kejriwal also informed that Delhi will have a separate isolation ward at LNJP hospital to prevent the highly transmissible monkeypox virus from spreading. The situation is under control, Kejriwal added.

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