NEW DELHI: The central government has issued some guidelines as a precaution measure for the monkeypox virus. The guidelines were issued after the first case of the virus was detected in Kerala.
As per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare guidelines, international passengers are directed to avoid having close contact with sick people including those having sick lesions and genital lesions, with dead or alive wild animals like small mammals and rodents, monkeys and apes.
The guidelines also direct people to strictly avoid contact with contaminated materials like cloths, bedding, hospital materials used by sick people, and the ones that have come into contact with the infected people.
The health ministry has advised people to consult their nearest doctors if anybody develops symptoms of monkeypox like fever and rash fever. The advice is also applicable to the people staying close to the infected people and in the areas where the virus seems to have penetrated.
The first case of the virus was detected in Kerala, where a person after returning from abroad, was hospitalized when he showed symptoms of monkeypox. The state health minister of Kerala, Veena George informed that the patient was found to be positive in the evening.
Earlier the state health minister had informed that the sample of the patient was sent to the National Institute of Virology for testing today.
She further mentions that the patient was found to be monkeypox positive and he was in close contact with a monkeypox-positive person abroad.
It is the first case of monkeypox that was reported in Kerala.
The World Health Organization says that it is a kind of zoonosis disease, which is communicated from animals to humans, with symptoms similar to those of smallpox, that was detected in the past and is said to be clinically less severe.
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