{"id":16288,"date":"2023-05-20T19:38:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T14:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=16288"},"modified":"2023-05-20T19:38:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T14:38:34","slug":"pakistan-reports-fourth-mpox-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/pakistan-reports-fourth-mpox-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan reports fourth mpox case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan reports fourth mpox case. Pakistan on Saturday reported its fourth case of mpox as another passenger who arrived in the country from Saudi Arabia tested positive for the disease.<\/p>\n<p>A female lab technician, who landed at Islamabad airport from Makkah, was diagnosed with the mpox, an infectious disease expert at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) said.<\/p>\n<p>The expert said the mpox patient had been shifted to the isolation ward of the PIMS hospital in the federal capital.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nih.org.pk\/\">National Institute of Health<\/a> (NIH) has also confirmed that a 19-year-old woman is diagnosed with mpox.<\/p>\n<p>All four mpox patients in Pakistan arrived from Saudi Arabia. Of them, three patients belong to Islamabad and one Karachi, the NIH added.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/two-suspected-cases-of-monkeypox-reported-in-lahore.html\">Two suspected cases of monkeypox reported in Lahore<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The officials at the Federal Ministry of Health said there is no evidence of local transmission of the disease in the country yet.<\/p>\n<p>Mpox (monkeypox) is a viral illness caused by the monkeypox virus, a species of the genus Orthopoxvirus. Two different clades exist \u2014 clade I and clade II.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that the common symptoms of monkeypox or mpox are a skin rash or mucosal lesions which can last 2\u20134 weeks and are accompanied by fever, headache, muscle aches, back pain, low energy, swollen lymph nodes.<\/p>\n<p>Mpox can be transmitted to humans through physical contact with someone who is infectious, with contaminated materials, or with infected animals.<\/p>\n<p>The disease is treated with supportive care. Vaccines and therapeutics developed for smallpox and approved for use in some countries can be used for mpox in some circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Since May 2022, a global outbreak of human monkeypox infections has been reported in over 78,000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan reports fourth mpox case. Pakistan on Saturday reported its fourth case of mpox as another passenger who arrived in the country from Saudi Arabia tested positive for the disease. A female lab technician, who landed at Islamabad airport from Makkah, was diagnosed with the mpox, an infectious disease expert at the Pakistan Institute of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[3254,3255,6512,623,945,237],"class_list":["post-16288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-latest-news","tag-national-institute-of-health","tag-nih","tag-pakistan-institute-of-medical-sciences","tag-who","tag-world-health-organisation","tag-pims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}