India confirms Asia's first monkeypox death

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KOCHI, India - India confirmed its first monkeypox death on Monday (Aug 1), a young man in the southern state of Kerala, in what is only the fourth known fatality from the disease in the current outbreak. Last week, Spain reported two monkeypox-related deaths and Brazil its first. The death in India is also the first in Asia. The World...

Test tubes labeled Monkeypox virus positive and negative are seen in this illustration taken on May 23, 2022.KOCHI, India - India 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.India's federal health ministry had no comment on the death, except for saying that the government had formed a task force of senior officials to monitor monkeypox cases in the country, where local media have reported at least five infections.

 

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