Though no one tested positive for monkeypox in Tiruchi so far, the isolation ward at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital has been set up as a precautionary measure. | Photo Credit: M. MOORTHY Close on the heels of the outbreak of monkeypox (Mpox)), a viral disease, in some countries, a special ward has been …
Srinagar, Aug 24: A professor from the department of Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, Prof. Sanjay Rai said that there is no need to panic about the Monkey Pox (Mpox) and that the disease won’t lead to another pandemic like COVID. Rai said that unlike COVID, the Monkey-Pox has been …
Health officials in Thailand have confirmed a case of the version of mpox that led the World Health Organization to declare a global health emergency. The second instance of this deadlier version being reported outside Africa follows its recent detection in Sweden. Concerns about the virus’s wider spread are rising, particularly since this new version, …
Temperature and visual screening will be carried out at Changi and Seletar airports. 3 min read Last Updated : Aug 23 2024 | 8:41 AM IST Temperature and visual screening will be carried out at Changi and Seletar airports from Friday onwards as a precautionary measure against mpox, after one confirmed case of a …
Clade 1b causes death in about 3.6 percent of cases (Representational)). Kenya: Burundi has confirmed 171 cases of mpox, the health minister said on Thursday, following confirmation of the first cases in the country last month. Formerly known as monkeypox, mpox is an infectious disease caused by a virus transmitted to humans by infected animals …
Thailand so far has detected a staggering 800 mpox Clade 2 cases since 2022. (Representational) New Delhi: Asia’s first known case of a new, deadlier Mpox virus strain has been confirmed in Thailand. The patient who has been tested positive for the new strain landed in Bangkok on August 14. The patient had travelled from …
Manila: The Philippines’ health minister said on Wednesday a recently detected mpox case in the Southeast Asian nation is of the mild Clade 2 variant and not the newer variant that has spread rapidly in Africa. “The mpox we found was the original variety and probably it could have been circulating in our community,” Health …