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July 15, 2022
The Union health ministry on Thursday rushed a high-level multidisciplinary team to Kerala which reported the countrys first case of monkeypox, a statement said, adding the team will assist the state authorities in instituting adequate public health measures to deal with the situation.
July 14, 2022
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 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.
July 14, 2022
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) confirmed a total of 477 cases of monkeypox in the country as of Wednesday. According to PHAC, The laboratory is conducting whole genome sequencing, an enhanced fingerprint analysis, on Canadian samples of monkeypox.
July 14, 2022
India's first case of confirmed Monkeypox disease has been reported from the southern state of Kerala, state Health Minister Veena George said today.
June 23, 2022
Monkeypox is a virus with the potential to cause significant harm including acute painful illness that may require hospitalisation, and may result in death, skin scarring, blindness, and other long-term disability.
June 16, 2022
The 27-year-old suspected Monkeypox patient had a fever on Thursday and there were red blisters on his body and hands.
June 15, 2022
The WHO aims to consult experts in orthopoxviruses on more appropriate names for the monkeypox virus. Earlier during the coronavirus pandemic, people around the world referred to Covid virus as China or Wuhan virus, and again the emergence of a Covid strain in South Africa led to travel bans.
June 15, 2022
WHO is working on a new name for monkeypox amid calls for changing the nomenclature of the virus that has now been reported in over 30 countries.
June 6, 2022
Monkeypox, which spreads through close contact and was first found in monkeys, has been detected in around 30 countries where it is not endemic, with over 780 confirmed cases.
June 4, 2022
The sample of a suspected monkeypox case in Ghaziabad has been sent for testing, news agency ANI reported today. The centre has warned against "unnecessary panic mongering" as no monkeypox case has been reported in India so far.