So far, there have been no signs of local transmission of the virus, health authorities have said.
Health authorities have been on alert since the first case was reported last month.Īll three patients who tested positive for the virus had arrived from Saudi Arabia. The federal health ministry, along with the National Command and Operation Center was vigilantly monitoring the situation, while keeping all the relevant stakeholders on board for ensuring preparedness, timely response, and containment of mpox cases in Pakistan, the NIH said.Īccording to officials, the two previous cases, reported in Islamabad, have now fully recovered.
In a tweet on Thursday, the National Institute of Health (NIH) said that so far three mpox cases have been reported. The authorities are tracing people who came into the patient’s contact and he would remain quarantined till his symptoms are cleared. He is being treated symptomatically, as there was no specific treatment for the disease, according to an official. Currently, he has mild fever on and off with cold at night and lesions all over the body, particularly in the genital area,” an official told Dawn. “He was treated as a suspected case of monkeypox soon after he arrived in Karachi on May 3. He initially developed a low-grade fever in Makkah on April 20 and skin lesions a few days later, according to health department officials. The patient, a resident of the Johi area of Dadu district, has been working as a driver in the Gulf nation. He is currently under treatment at Karachi’s Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where his condition was said to be stable.
KARACHI: Authorities in Sindh on Thursday confirmed the first case of mpox (previously known as monkeypox) in the province, taking the national tally to three.Īccording to the provincial health department, the patient, 36, had arrived from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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