India confirms first monkeypox death in Asia

Technicians wearing PPE work inside a molecular laboratory facility set up to test for monkeypox, in Chennai, India. Photograph: Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty ImagesIndia confirmed its first monkeypox death on Monday, a young man in the southern state of Kerala, in what is only the fourth known fatality from the disease in the current outbreak.

The 22-year-old Indian man died on Saturday, Kerala's revenue minister told reporters, adding that the government had isolated 21 people who had come in contact with him. Kerala's health minister, Veena George, told reporters on Sunday that the man's family told authorities the previous day that he had tested positive in the United Arab Emirates before returning to India.

The WHO said late last month 78 countries had reported more than 18,000 cases of monkeypox, the majority in Europe.

Should have worn a condum

Did they scratch themselves to death from being itchy? How does a rash kill you? Was the deceased person vaccinated by any chance?

In Wuhan?

I speak for everyone when I say we do not care

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