Rajasthan reports first suspected case of MonkeyPox

MonkeyPox cases surge in India…

Amid fear with deadly Covid-19 along with it the cases of Monkeypox are alarming in India. One after another the cases have been rising gradually. 

Rajasthan has reported its first suspected case of Monkeypox. A 20-year-old, exhibiting symptoms of the disease, has been admitted to a government hospital here and his samples have been sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune, Dr. Ajit Singh, and Superintendent of Rajasthan University of Health Sciences, said on Monday.

The youth was referred from Kishangarh late on Sunday. He has been kept under observation in the special ward created for Monkeypox cases, he said.

The youth is suffering from fever for the last four days and has rashes on his body, Dr Singh added.

Meanwhile, a 35-year-old Nigerian man, living in New Delhi and having no recent history of foreign travel, has tested positive for Monkeypox, taking the total number of infected people in the country to six.

The Indian authorities today confirmed Asia's first possible Monkeypox fatality after the death of a man who recently returned from the United Arab Emirates testing positive.

Kerala state's health ministry said tests on the 22-year-old "showed that the man had Monkeypox".

Three monkeypox-related fatalities have so far been reported outside Africa in an outbreak that the World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency.

According to the WHO, more than 18,000 Monkeypox cases have been detected throughout the world outside Africa since the beginning of May, most of them in Europe.

Spain last week recorded two Monkeypox-related deaths and Brazil one.

It is however unclear if Monkeypox actually caused the three fatalities, with Spanish authorities as of Sunday still carrying out autopsies and Brazilian authorities saying its deceased patient had other "serious conditions".