Persons suspected to have contracted monkey pox infection should be isolated at designated health facilities and their samples sent to the National Institute of Virology, Pune, for testing, Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan has said.
Tamil Nadu’s Department of Health has issued an advisory to the Collectors and the Commissioner of the Greater Chennai Corporation, asking them to look out for persons displaying symptoms of the infection.
In the past several weeks, cases have been reported in Canada, Australia, the United States and some European countries. People who had travelled to African countries, such as Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Congo and Nigeria, had returned with the infection, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said in its advisory.
