On Monday, September 23, India declared the country’s first incidence of monkeypox, or mpox, associated with the fast spreading clade 1b strain, which affected a tourist in Kerala.
The patient is a 38-year-old man who traveled from the United Arab Emirates, according to Reuters.
In the nation’s capital, a 26-year-old Hisar, Haryana resident tested positive for the West African Clade 2 strain earlier.
The outbreak’s growing spread throughout Africa has prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a serious health emergency.
Just one day after the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared a public health emergency across the continent, this decision was made by the emergency committee of the UN health agency.
