MonkeyPox Disease

New Delhi : The Centre has formed a task force to monitor monkeypox cases in the country.According to a source from the Union Health Ministry, the task force will also provide guidance to the government on the expansion of diagnostic…

Chennai : A 35-year-old man who arrived at Tiruchi airport on Friday and had a skin rash -- a symptom of monkeypox, is kept in isolation at Pudukkottai Medical College Hospital in Tamil Nadu.The man was sent to Mahatma Gandhi Memorial…

Thiruvananthapuram : After a 22-year-old youth who reached Palakkad district of Kerala from a middle eastern country died on Sunday, the state health department has asked the district health officials to create a route map of his trip ever…

Amaravati : An eight-year-old boy in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur was found with suspected symptoms of monkeypox.Health officials said on Sunday that his samples have been sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune. The boy has…

Brazil : Brazil has confirmed the country's first monkeypox-related death, according to the Health Ministry.The case was reported on Friday in Belo Horizonte, capital of the southeast Minas Gerais state, and the victim was a 41-year-old…

Manila : The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) on Friday confirmed the detection of the first monkeypox case in the country.The DOH's officer-in-charge Undersecretary Beverly Lorraine Ho said the virus was detected in a 31-year-old…

London : Common symptoms of monkeypox virus such as rectal pain and penile swelling (oedema) differ from those described in previous outbreaks and are more prevalent, according to a study.The study, published by The BMJ, identifies…

New Delhi : Amid rise in the global cases of monkeypox virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday recommended at-risk men to limit their sexual partners to reduce their risk of exposure.More than 18,000 monkeypox cases have now…

New York : A pregnant woman with monkeypox in the US has delivered a healthy baby, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The officials noted that the baby was delivered safely and both are "doing well", CBS news…

Geneva : Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that Europe and the Americas have been the hardest hit by the global monkeypox outbreak. Addressing reporters here, the WHO chief said…