The health department in Himachal Pradesh has detected a person with symptoms similar to monkeypox in Solan's Baddi. The health condition of the person is improving as it has been 21 days since he first showed the symptoms.
“At all the main hospitals in the State, there are isolation beds. For serious patients, there are ICU beds as well,” informed Odisha Health Services Director Bijaya Mohapatra.
Currently, the premier health institute is prepared with a separate isolation ward and four ICU beds for the virus.
While mass vaccination is not recommended at this time, the WHO recommends vaccine for those exposed to someone with monkeypox and those at high risk of exposure including health workers and lab workers as well as those with multiple sexual partners.
"Monkeypox's rash and flu-like symptoms are relatively mild, and in most cases, resolve themselves within two to four weeks without the need for specific treatments."
A 47-year-old woman had approached the Health Department on Tuesday, after which her samples were collected and sent to Lucknow for testing. The woman is currently under home isolation.
At a press briefing in Geneva, Lewis said that "right strategies in the right groups" are key to contain the outbreak.
Taking to Twitter, Faheem said: "Monkeypox requires close skin contact with lesions, fluid. Soiled surfaces and beddings are also a risk. (But) rarely respiratory droplets can transmit."
The viral disease, once centred to countries in central and west Africa, has now spread to countries that are not endemic to the virus.
Earlier, the Union health ministry had issued guidelines for management of monkeypox to all states and UTs to ensure preparedness to deal with any potential crisis.
The company claimed that its POX-Q Multiplexed RT-PCR kit produces results in less than 50 minutes with a high accuracy rate.
More severe cases could become apparent if the virus spreads to more immunologically vulnerable groups like young children, pregnant women and the immunocompromised, Smallwood was quoted as saying.
The nation has set up specialised sites to identify cases and a laboratory where test results are available within 24 hours, he said.
Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Archana Srivastava sent Dr Sarfaraz from the district hospital to Bidhuna to collect the samples.
Four cases of the infectious disease have also been confirmed in India, including New Delhi.
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