Hyderabad, July 25 (UNI): A resident of Kamareddy has become a victim of the monkeypox virus. The victim has now been shifted to the isolation ward in city fever hospital and was being treated. Hospital superintendent Dr. Shankar confirmed that the victim was exhibiting monkeypox virus symptoms. He said they have collected five different types of samples from the patient and sent them to the Pune-based Institute of Virology for confirmation of the presence of the virus. Stating that the patient came into contact with six people, he said they have identified his primary contacts and kept them under isolation at Kamareddy. He said the victim came to the State from Kuwait on the sixth of this month and added that he developed the symptoms of the monkeypox virus-like fever and skin rashes after three days after his arrival.
Dr. Shankar said the patient had visited a private hospital in Kamareddy and was told that he was exhibiting the symptoms of monkeypox. The superintendent had asked the people of the state to not worry about the virus and noted that the close contacts of the monkeypox patients were likely to contract the virus. He made it clear that the virus was an airborne disease and added it would not spread through the air. He also said those who took vaccination for smallpox virus would get some amount of immunity from the virus. He said the symptoms of the virus would be exhibited between six days to 13 days. He urged the people to approach doctors if they developed any kind of symptoms of the monkeypox virus.
