The Health Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan on Friday another person Monkey pox Confirmed to be infected with the virus.
Director of Public Health of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dr. Irshad Roghani, said that the district who came from Dubai to Peshawar on Thursday morning Nowshera The virus was found in a 47-year-old man from
According to Dr. Irshad, the samples were obtained after the suspected patient was transferred to the police hospital during screening at the Peshawar airport.
He said, ‘The samples of the patient were sent to the Public Health Reference Laboratory in Peshawar, where M. pox was confirmed in the patient.’
He said that more samples of the patient have been sent to the National Institute of Health Sciences Islamabad to find out the type of m-pox, from where the detailed report will come in three to four days.
According to Dr Irshad, the patient works as a welder in Dubai and there were seven people living with him, one of whom had symptoms of m-pox last week.
He said, ‘The condition of the patient is gradually improving since yesterday and the team of doctors is busy in treatment.’
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mpox virus was confirmed in a person who returned from the Gulf country last week.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Mpox is an infectious disease caused by a virus called monkeypox.
Symptoms of this disease include skin rash, fever, headache, joint pain, rash, lack of energy and back pain.
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According to WHO, this disease is transmitted from one patient to another person through physical contact, while if the virus is present in an animal, it is also transmitted to humans.
Monkeypox virus first appeared in Denmark in 1958, and the first human case of the disease occurred in 1980 in a nine-month-old baby in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
After cases of m-pox came to light in Pakistan, screening teams were deployed at airports and any suspected person was isolated.
More than 87,000 cases of m-pox have been reported since 1970 in 110 countries, including Nigeria, America, and Europe, of which 112 have died.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control, there are two types of M. pox, clade 1 and clade 2, of which clade 1 is more dangerous.
According to the same institution, the death rate of mpox clade one has been 10 percent in some outbreaks, while more than 99 percent of patients with clade two disease recover.
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2024-08-25 05:41:18