<p>New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Monday confirmed India’s first case of Mpox clade1b virus – the emergency strain announced by the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/who">WHO</a> – in a 38 year old patient in Kerala, who tested positive last week.</p><p>This is also South Asia’s first recorded case of the emergency strain, which has so far been reported from six countries in Africa and two outside.</p><p>A ministry official said Mpox clade1B was detected in the patient from Malappuram district who had recently returned from the United Arab Emirates. The previous case detected in India was a non-emergency strain.</p><p>The Kerala patient is stable, the official said, noting "this was the first case of the current strain that led to the World Health Organisation declaring Mpox a public health emergency last month for a second time".</p>.Mpox patient discharged from Delhi's LNJP Hospital: Officials.<p>The World Health Organisation on August 14 declared that the current outbreak of Mpox following a continuous rise of cases in Congo in the last six months and the spread of the disease to other east African countries like Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Gabon.</p><p>The emergency is caused by a new variant (Clade-1b) of the virus, which has also been found in Thailand and Sweden.</p><p>The UN health body noted that the clinical features of the infection remain the same. It affected young males between 18-44 years with symptoms of systemic or genital rash followed by fever. The commonest mode of transmission is sexual contact followed by person-to-person non-sexual contact.</p>
<p>New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Monday confirmed India’s first case of Mpox clade1b virus – the emergency strain announced by the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/who">WHO</a> – in a 38 year old patient in Kerala, who tested positive last week.</p><p>This is also South Asia’s first recorded case of the emergency strain, which has so far been reported from six countries in Africa and two outside.</p><p>A ministry official said Mpox clade1B was detected in the patient from Malappuram district who had recently returned from the United Arab Emirates. The previous case detected in India was a non-emergency strain.</p><p>The Kerala patient is stable, the official said, noting "this was the first case of the current strain that led to the World Health Organisation declaring Mpox a public health emergency last month for a second time".</p>.Mpox patient discharged from Delhi's LNJP Hospital: Officials.<p>The World Health Organisation on August 14 declared that the current outbreak of Mpox following a continuous rise of cases in Congo in the last six months and the spread of the disease to other east African countries like Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Gabon.</p><p>The emergency is caused by a new variant (Clade-1b) of the virus, which has also been found in Thailand and Sweden.</p><p>The UN health body noted that the clinical features of the infection remain the same. It affected young males between 18-44 years with symptoms of systemic or genital rash followed by fever. The commonest mode of transmission is sexual contact followed by person-to-person non-sexual contact.</p>
