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The Kerala health department on Friday said another Mpox case was reported in the state and urged those who have symptoms to seek treatment.
A suspected case of mpox infection has been reported from Malappuram district of Kerala after a man who recently returned from Dubai showed symptoms of the disease.
Officials said Clade 1b strain has been detected in a 38-year-old man from Malappuram district who had recently returned from the United Arab Emirates.
A 38-year-old man undergoing treatment in Kerala's northern Malappuram district has been confirmed to have contracted Mpox infection, the state health department said on Wednesday.
Strict screening protocols are to be implemented for passengers arriving from central African countries affected by the outbreak.
Official sources said the last case of monkeypox in India was reported from Kerala in March this year.
India has so far reported nine cases of monkeypox, including one death.
As on date, there has been no report of any suspected or confirmed case of Monkeypox in Mumbai, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) public health department said.
The Union health ministry has also directed airport and port health officers to be vigilant, they said.
It underlined that anyone can catch the virus if they have had prolonged or repeated contact with an infected individual.
Delhi reported its fourth case of monkeypox on Wednesday, with a 31-year-old Nigerian woman testing positive for the disease, official sources said.
The transmission of dengue is closely associated with three key factors -- rainfall, humidity and temperature -- that dictate the geographies in which it spreads and the transmission rate of the viral infection caused by the dengue virus (DENV), and transmitted to humans through the bite of infected mosquitoes.
Monkeypox is a viral zoonosis (a virus transmitted to humans from animals) with symptoms similar to those seen in the past in smallpox patients, although it is clinically less severe.
A 22-year-old man, who recently returned to Kerala from the UAE, allegedly died due to monkeypox on Saturday.
One has to stay in isolation for 21 days from the last contact with a monkeypox patient or their contaminated materials, they said.
The Union health ministry on Monday reviewed the steps for health screening of international travellers arriving in India at airports and ports after two cases of Monkeypox were reported in the country.
The man had attended a stag party recently in Manali in Himachal Pradesh.
Amid increasing cases of monkeypox being reported in non-endemic countries, the government on Tuesday issued guidelines directing district surveillance units to consider even one such case as an outbreak and initiating a detailed investigation through the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme.
More than 16,000 cases have now been reported from 75 countries and there had been five deaths so far as a result of the outbreak.
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Kerala Health Minister Veena George on Sunday said the health department will examine the reasons behind the death of the man.
Monkeypox is a rare zoonotic disease that is caused by infection with monkeypox virus. Monkeypox virus belongs to the family Poxviridae, which also includes the viruses causing smallpox and cowpox disease
The National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune under the ICMR has isolated the monkeypox virus from the clinical specimen of a patient, which can pave the way for development of diagnostic kits and vaccines against the disease, officials said on Wednesday.
According to these experts, a monkeypox outbreak can effectively be tackled by strong surveillance.
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