Sample of 5-year-old boy collected for monkeypox test in UP’s Ghaziabad
Monkeypox Virus: After complaining of rashes and itching to a 5-year-old girl from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, her sample has been sent for monkeypox test. CMO Ghaziabad said, “He does not have any other health problem and neither he nor any of his close ones have traveled abroad in the last 1 month.” He also said that the sample has been sent as a precaution.
The development comes four days after the central government issued guidelines amid rising cases of monkeypox in non-endemic countries. The government directed the district surveillance units to treat even such a case as an outbreak and initiate detailed investigation through the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme.
In the ‘Guidelines on Management of Monkeypox Disease’ issued to the States and Union Territories, the Health Ministry emphasized on surveillance and rapid identification of new cases, as key public health measures for prevention of outbreaks in human- mandates the need to mitigate Se-K risk. Human transmission.
It said that India needs to be prepared in view of increasing reports of cases in non-endemic countries, even though no case of monkeypox virus has been reported in the country so far.
The guidelines proposed a surveillance strategy to identify cases and clusters of infections and sources of infection at the earliest so as to isolate cases to prevent further transmission, provide optimum clinical care , contacts can be identified and managed and frontline health workers to be protected and effectively controlled. and preventive measures based on the identified routes of transmission.
(with PTI inputs)
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