The announcement will free up money and other resources to fight the virus, which may cause fever, body aches, chills, fatigue and pimple-like bumps on many parts of the body.
India has so far reported nine cases of monkeypox including one death. This is a technical meeting to revisit the existing guidelines, an official said.
Defining contacts, the guidelines stated that a contact is defined as a person who, in the period beginning with the onset of the source case’s first...
Two suspected cases of monkeypox are also admitted in the LNJP Hospital presently, while the west Delhi man who was the first reported case of the viral...
The latest Monkeypox case in Delhi is the eighth Monekypox patient confirmed so far in India. One death has also been reported.
Fourteen of his contacts, including the doctor who first treated him, were quarantined but none of them developed symptoms, officials said.
A 20-year-old, exhibiting symptoms of the disease, has been admitted to a government hospital in Rajasthan and his samples have been sent to the National...
A 22-year-old man suspected to have Monkeypox died in Kerala on Saturday. PTI reports that his Monkeypox test results have come as positive.
Experts said the monkeypox outbreak is already stigmatising the LGBTQ community and people who developed fever and are scared to go for a medical test.
The World Health Organisation declared monkeypox a global health emergency on July 23 and San Francisco's mayor on Thursday announced a state of emergency over...
The monkeypox virus has claimed another life in Spain.
India has so far reported four cases of monkeypox, with three from Kerala and one from Delhi.
The UN health agency has warned that the disease could be more severe in vulnerable populations like children or pregnant women.
The Delhi government has directed its hospitals and 11 revenue districts to follow the guidelines.
To date, monkeypox deaths have only been reported in Africa, where a more dangerous version of the virus is spreading, mainly in Nigeria and Congo.
The samples of the suspected patient, who has rashes and lesions, has been sent to National Institute of Virology, Pune.
After the monkeypox emergency committee met for the second time, on July 21, 2022, it released a report stating that the multi-country outbreak of monkeypox...
Vitals of the Monkeypox patient in Delhi are stable but his lesions will take at least a week to recover. He is admitted to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital.
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...
Telangana Health Minister T Harish Rao has said that the state government is taking measures to tackle a possible monkeypox outbreak.
The Congress party in Delhi has urged the city government to take necessary measures and trace the source of infection of the first monkeypox case in the...
A 40-year-old man in Telangana who started showing symptoms of the Monkeypox disease has been shifted to a government hospital.
The Monkeypox patient in Delhi, India's fourth confirmed case and Delhi's first, had no foreign travel history but he did travel to Himachal Pradesh.
Monkeypox In India: Sources said the meeting was chaired by the Directorate General of Health Sciences (DGHS) and attended by officials from the Health...
Experts have said there is no need to panic as Monkeypox is not expected to become a pandemic like Covid-19 as the two diseases work differently.
