{"id":7579,"date":"2024-09-10T14:46:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T19:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7579"},"modified":"2024-09-10T14:46:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T19:46:59","slug":"india-reports-case-of-mpox-in-traveller-from-affected-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/09\/10\/india-reports-case-of-mpox-in-traveller-from-affected-country\/","title":{"rendered":"India reports case of mpox in traveller from affected country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/india\/india-reports-case-mpox-traveller-affected-country-2024-09-08\/\">Reuters<\/a> &nbsp;India had recorded a suspected case of mpox found in a man who recently travelled from a country suffering an outbreak of the virus, the health ministry said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The patient has been isolated in a hospital and is in a table condition, the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry did not specify which strain of the mpox virus the patient might have, but tests were being conducted to confirm the infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mpox can spread through close contact. Usually mild, it is fatal in rare cases. It causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions on the body. &#8220;The case is being managed in line with established protocols, and contact tracing is ongoing to identify potential sources and assess the impact within the country,&#8221; the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, The Hindu daily newspaper reported that India had been on alert since a new strain of mpox became virulent in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/who-declares-mpox-global-public-health-emergency-second-time-two-years-2024-08-14\/\">public health emergency<\/a>&nbsp;of international concern after the new variant was identified.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &nbsp;India had recorded a suspected case of mpox found in a man who recently travelled from a country suffering an outbreak of the virus, the health ministry said on Sunday. The patient has been isolated in a hospital and is in a table condition, the ministry said. The ministry did not specify which strain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monkeypox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7580,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions\/7580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}