India has reported its first confirmed case of
monkeypox after a 35-year-old
man with a history of travel to the Middle East showed symptoms, officials
said.
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The federal government rushed a multi-disciplinary team to the southern
state of Kerala in view of the confirmed case of monkeypox there, according to
an official statement.
The man, who travelled from the United Arab Emirates to Kerala on Tuesday,
was in stable condition and isolated at a hospital, the state's health minister
Veena George told reporters Thursday.
"He is stable and all his vital signs are normal. We have asked all
districts to be on alert," she said.
The patient's primary contacts have also been isolated while passengers who
came in contact with him on his flight have been told to monitor themselves for
symptoms.
Monkeypox is an infectious disease caused by a virus transmitted to humans
by infected animals. Human-to-human transmission is possible but considered
rare.
A surge in monkeypox infections has been reported since early May outside
the West and Central African countries where the disease has long been endemic.
So far, confirmed cases in non-endemic areas are generally mild and no
deaths have been reported.
It is considered much less dangerous and contagious than smallpox, which was
eradicated more than 40 years ago.
The first symptoms of monkeypox are a fever above 38.5 degrees Celsius,
headaches, muscle pain and back pain during the course of five days.
Rashes subsequently appear on the face, the palms of hands and soles of
feet, followed by lesions, spots and finally scabs.
Transmission comes through close and prolonged contact between two people,
principally via saliva or the pus of scabs formed during infection.
Most monkeypox infections so far have been observed in men who have sex with
men, of young age and chiefly in urban areas, according to the WHO.
The disease has a fatality rate of between one and 10 percent depending on
the variant -- there are two -- in endemic countries.
But medical care significantly reduces the risk. Most people recover on
their own and outbreaks usually die out on their own due to low
transmissibility of the virus.
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