Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Salim Khan, Director General of Health Services in the province Monkey pox The presence of three patients infected with the virus has been confirmed.
Speaking to the British news agency Reuters, Salim Khan said that the virus has been found among Pakistani citizens who came from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Director General Health Services Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said that the presence of monkeypox has been confirmed in two persons, while the samples of the third have been sent to the National Health Institute (NIH) in the capital Islamabad for confirmation.
Saleem Khan added that the three patients are being kept in quarantine.
Earlier, the spokesperson of Pakistan’s Ministry of National Health had confirmed a suspected case of monkeypox in the country yesterday.
High alert in Pakistan
Following the identification of a new strain of monkeypox virus by the World Health Organization (WHO), its recent outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern, following which the relevant agencies in Pakistan have also been on high alert. Alerted.
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Sajid Shah, spokesperson of Pakistan’s Ministry of Health, told Independent Urdu on Thursday that Prime Minister’s Coordinator for Health, Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Bharath, has directed all airports across the country to be on alert to prevent M.pox.
The Ministry of Health said in a statement regarding the Prime Minister’s Coordinator for Health, Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Bharath, that the Border Health Services Pakistan organization has been put on high alert, the screening system is being ensured at all airports and the International Health Regulation. Implementation of recommendations is being ensured.
The Prime Minister’s Coordinator for Health said that all necessary measures are being taken to keep the public safe from epidemics.
“The Ministry of Health and Border Health Services personnel are on alert to deal with any kind of sudden disaster and the Ministry of Health is ensuring monitoring of the situation.”
He added that national and provincial public health laboratories are well equipped to confirm monkeypox virus.
There have been cases of monkeypox in Pakistan before. It was not immediately clear which variant of the virus was detected in the patients.
The disease originated in Africa
The WHO on Wednesday declared the outbreak of a new strain of monkeypox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency, warning that the virus could spread across international borders.
Since the current outbreak began in January 2023, there have been 27,000 cases and more than 1,100 deaths in Congo, mostly among children.
According to the WHO website, the disease, caused by the monkeypox virus, can cause severe itching, enlarged lymph nodes (lumps) and fever, and can make some people very ill.
According to Pakistan’s Ministry of Health, more than 17,000 cases of suspected monkeypox have been reported in African countries so far this year, while 517 deaths have been reported.
What is Minki Pox?
Monkeypox, also known as ‘monkeypox’, was first discovered by scientists in 1958, when a ‘pox-like’ disease broke out in monkeys. Until recently, the disease in humans was observed in people in Central and West Africa, who came into close contact with infected animals.
In 2022, the virus was first confirmed to be transmitted through sexual contact, sparking an epidemic in more than 70 countries around the world, where no cases of monkeypox had previously been reported.
Monkeypox belongs to the same family of viruses as smallpox and its symptoms include fever, chills and body aches. In more severe cases, wounds develop on a person’s face, hands, chest and genitals.
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