First patient detected with monkeypox in India discharged from hospital
The 35-year-old male from Kerala’s Kollam district has been cured of the infection and is physically as well as mentally healthy, state Health Minister Veena George said.
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As per the direction of the National Institute of Virology in Pune, two tests were conducted at an interval of 72 hours to ascertain that the patient has been cured of the infection. (Image: Getty Images/Thinkstock)India’s first monkeypox patient, a case reported in Kerala, has recovered from the infection and was discharged from the government medical college in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday, state Health Minister Veena George said.
The minister said the rash (one of the symptoms) on the 35-year-old male from Kollam district has been cured and he is physically as well as mentally healthy. As per the direction of the National Institute of Virology in Pune, two tests were conducted at an interval of 72 hours to ascertain that the patient had recovered the infection. He is completely free of all symptoms, George added.
The patient had arrived in Kerala from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on July 12. All his primary contacts tested negative for the infection, she said, adding that the condition of two other patients who were detected with monkeypox in the state continues to be stable.
On July 18, Kerala confirmed its second case of monkeypox in a 31-year-old male who had arrived in Kannur from Dubai on July 13, while the third patient was a 35-year-old who reached the state’s Malappuram from the UAE on July 6. Kerala had issued a monkeypox alert in all its 14 districts after the initial cases were detected.
The monkeypox virus is transmitted to humans through close contact with an infected person or animal, and spreads from lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets and contaminated materials such as bedding. Symptoms can include fever, headache, muscle ache and backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills, exhaustion, and rashes that can look like pimples or blisters on the face, inside the mouth and other parts of the body.
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