(ANSA) - NEW DELHI, 01 AUG - The Department of Health of the state of Kerala has announced that the 22-year-old who died last Saturday in Thrissur is the first Indian victim of monkeypox.
The news was released after confirmation of tests conducted at the National Institute of Virology in Pune.
The young man had returned to India on 22 July from the Arab Emirates, where he was working, and had been hospitalized with a very high fever and an excruciating migraine.
The Minister of Health of Kerala, quoted by The Indian Express, revealed that the 22-year-old had told family members that he tested positive for Almorbo in the Emirates, shortly before leaving for India.
All the people he had contact with were isolated.
To date, there are four cases of the new African variant of the disease found in India.
This death is the fourth monkeypox-related death outside Africa.
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