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Nigerian National In Delhi Tests Positive For Monkeypox, 3rd Case In National Capital

Mumbai: Delhi on Tuesday reported its third confirmed case of monkeypox. This comes after a 31-year-old man from Nigeria, admitted to the Lok Nayak Hospital, tested positive for the virus. This is the third monkeypox case in Delhi while India’s tally has now reached eight.

“India currently has eight confirmed cases of monkeypox out of which five patients have a history of foreign travel,” Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya told Parliament on Tuesday.

Health Ministry officials said that five out of eight cases have been reported from Kerala. Kerala on Monday reported India’s first monkeypox fatality after the test results of a 22-year-old man who died on Saturday after returning from the United Arab Emirates came out positive. The state authorities were investigating if monkeypox was the sole reason behind his death.

On Monday, a 35-year-old Nigerian man with a recent foreign travel history also tested positive for the disease.

Monkeypox is a viral zoonosis (a virus transmitted from animals to humans) with symptoms similar to those of smallpox patients. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), which declared it a public health emergency on 23 July, it is clinically less serious than smallpox.

The Center Monday set up a task force to monitor the disease, which can spread through bodily fluids or direct contact with an infected person’s wounds.

The disease can also be spread through indirect contact with wound material, such as through contaminated clothing or linen. So far, at least 22,000 cases of infection have been reported in 75 countries.

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