Monkeypox
Jun 07, 2023
Colombo, June 7 (IANS) The Sri Lankan Health Ministry on Wednesday announced that a woman and her baby have been infected with monkeypox upon their return from Dubai.
Aug 20, 2022
Visakhapatnam: The first indigenously-developed RT-PCR kit for testing monkeypox was launched at the Andhra Pradesh Medtech Zone (AMTZ) on Friday here.
Aug 18, 2022
Do you know physical intimacy can also spread Monkeypox? Monkeypox spread if an infected person comes in close contact with an uninfected person said the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (...
Aug 06, 2022
Andhra Pradesh has reported its first suspected case of monkeypox with a student of GITAM University, Vizag exhibiting the symptoms of the viral disease. The student was kept in isolation.
Aug 04, 2022
As people are slowly coming out of the Covid-19 scare, the news about monkeypox, a milder cousin of smallpox, is causing growing unease amongst people. First described in 1958, fewer than 19000 cases...
Aug 04, 2022
According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report on monkeypox men who have sex with men are the group at the highest risk of infection right now.
Aug 03, 2022
New Delhi: Amid rising cases of monkeypox in the country and World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring it a global public health emergency of international concern, the Union health ministry on...
Aug 01, 2022
A man from Kerala who had tested positive for monkeypox in the UAE passed away on Saturday in Thrissur. This was the fourth monkeypox death outside of Africa and the first to occur in India.
Jul 26, 2022
In a sigh of relief, the first suspected case of monkeypox in Telangana turned out negative on Tuesday.
Jul 25, 2022
Hyderabad: A day after a 40-year-old man was hospitalised in Fever Hospital in the city after showing suspected symptoms of Monkeypox, Director of Public Health Dr G.
Jul 25, 2022
Hyderabad: A 40-year-old man from Kamareddy district in Telangana with a recent travel history has shown symptoms of monkeypox, the state health department said on Sunday.
Jul 24, 2022
New Delhi: India’s fourth case of monkeypox was reported in the National Capital on Sunday. A 31-year-old man with no foreign travel history has been hospitalized with the symptoms of monkeypox.
Jul 23, 2022
Geneva: The rising cases of monkeypox across various countries prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Saturday to declare the virus a global...
Jul 18, 2022
Kannur: Kerala on Monday reported a second case of monkeypox. A 31-year-old man who arrived on July 13, has tested positive for monkeypox, state Health Minister Veena George said. He landed at the...
Jul 17, 2022
Vijayawada: Residents of Vijayawada city heaved a sigh of relief when the health authorities on Sunday clarified that there is no need to worry as the first suspected monkeypox case turned out to be...
Jul 15, 2022
India on Thursday reported its first case of monkeypox in Kollam of Kerala. The man returned from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) four days ago and was hospitalised after showing signs of the virus.
Jul 14, 2022
Kerala: A person who returned from abroad has been admitted to a hospital in Kerala after he showed symptoms of monkeypox, State Health Minister Veena George said on Thursday.
Jun 03, 2022
Indians born after 1979 (the year in which the smallpox vaccine was discontinued) are not protected against monkeypox. Chickenpox infection doesn't provide protection against monkeypox.
May 28, 2022
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky highlighted that some patients in the United States had not been to countries with current epidemics, implying that the virus is spreading domestically.
May 25, 2022
As a preventive move in the face of a global outbreak of the monkeypox virus, India's ministry of health and family welfare will announce guidelines later this week.
May 25, 2022
The United Arab Emirates announced the first case of monkeypox in the Gulf region on Tuesday. Earlier, Israel had reported the outbreak of monkeypox.
May 24, 2022
The dangerous COVID-19 pandemic is not over yet. But now Monkeypox is a matter of concern. Over 100 cases of another viral infection called monkeypox have been confirmed globally.
May 23, 2022
Monkeypox is a rare viral illness that is similar to that of human smallpox. It was discovered in 1958. Humans were first exposed to monkeypox in 1970. The illness is usually prevalent in tropical...
May 23, 2022
Following the outbreak of COVID 19, a new disease known as Monkeypox is now the cause of major worry for the Indian public.
May 19, 2022
Stockholm: Amid fast spreading of monkeypox in the UK, Europe and US, the health officials in Europe say they are seeing an outbreak of salmonella infection linked to chocolate Easter eggs.
May 19, 2022
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Wednesday said it had confirmed a rare case of monkeypox in a man who had recently travelled to Canada. He went to Canada at the end of April to meet...
