{"id":9703,"date":"2022-08-01T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9703"},"modified":"2022-08-01T11:56:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:56:40","slug":"india-confirms-asias-first-monkeypox-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/india-confirms-asias-first-monkeypox-death\/","title":{"rendered":"India confirms Asia&#8217;s first monkeypox death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India confirms Asia&#8217;s first monkeypox death\u06d4 India confirmed its first monkeypox death on Monday, a young man in the southern state of Kerala, in what is only the fourth known fatality from the disease in the current outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Spain reported two monkeypox-related deaths and Brazil its first. The death in India is also the first in Asia. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/\">World Health Organization<\/a> declared the outbreak a global health emergency on July 23.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Indian man died on Saturday, Kerala&#8217;s revenue minister told reporters, adding that the government had isolated 21 people who had come in contact with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The person reached Kerala on July 21 but visited a hospital only on July 26 when he displayed fatigue and fever,&#8221; Minister K. Rajan said, adding that there was no reason to panic as none of the primary contacts were showing symptoms.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/who-europe-expects-more-monkeypox-related-deaths.html\">WHO Europe expects more monkeypox-related deaths<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kerala&#8217;s health minister, Veena George, told reporters on Sunday that the man&#8217;s family told authorities the previous day that he had tested positive in the United Arab Emirates before returning to India.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s federal health ministry had no comment on the death, except for saying that the government had formed a task force of senior officials to monitor monkeypox cases in the country, where local media have reported at least five infections.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO said late last month 78 countries had reported more than 18,000 cases of monkeypox, the majority in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>It says the monkeypox virus causes a disease with less severe symptoms than smallpox and occurs mainly in central and west Africa. The disease is transmitted from animals to humans.<\/p>\n<p>Human-to-human transmission happens through contact with bodily fluids, lesions on the skin or on internal mucosal surfaces, such as in the mouth or throat, respiratory droplets and contaminated objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India confirms Asia&#8217;s first monkeypox death\u06d4 India confirmed its first monkeypox death on Monday, a young man in the southern state of Kerala, in what is only the fourth known fatality from the disease in the current outbreak. Last week, Spain reported two monkeypox-related deaths and Brazil its first. The death in India is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[623,996],"class_list":["post-9703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703","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=9703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}