India confirms its first monkeypox death, a young man in the southern state of Kerala. It is the fourth known death and the first in Asia, from the disease in the current outbreak.
The 22-year-old Indian man died on Saturday, around a week after returning from the UAE and being taken to hospital, Kerala’s revenue minister told reporters, adding that the government had isolated 21 people who had come in contact with him.
Kerala’s health minister, Veena George, told reporters on Sunday that the man’s family informed authorities that he had tested positive in the United Arab Emirates before returning to India.
India has reported at least four cases of monkeypox, with the first recorded on July 15 in another man who returned to Kerala from the UAE.
According to the WHO, more than 18,000 monkeypox cases have been detected throughout the world outside Africa since the beginning of May, most of them in Europe.
Spain last week recorded two monkeypox-related deaths and Brazil one.
The 22-year-old Indian man died on Saturday, around a week after returning from the UAE and being taken to hospital, Kerala’s revenue minister told reporters, adding that the government had isolated 21 people who had come in contact with him.
Kerala’s health minister, Veena George, told reporters on Sunday that the man’s family informed authorities that he had tested positive in the United Arab Emirates before returning to India.
India has reported at least four cases of monkeypox, with the first recorded on July 15 in another man who returned to Kerala from the UAE.
According to the WHO, more than 18,000 monkeypox cases have been detected throughout the world outside Africa since the beginning of May, most of them in Europe.
Spain last week recorded two monkeypox-related deaths and Brazil one.
