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NEW DELHI: An analysis of India's first two monkeypoxcases by an institute of the Indian Council of Medical Research revealed that the duo who returned from the UAE were infected with the virus strain A.2 - different from the one…

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday asked some of the leading doctors and scientists specialising in public health to submit their recommendations on how to deal with the growing monkeypox outbreak. India has so far reported nine confirmed…

Union health and family welfare minister Mansukh Mandaviya.NEW DELHI: Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla met Health minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday to discuss the developments regarding research at SII to develop a…

NEW DELHI: India has so far reported a total of eight cases of Monkeypoxand one-related death. A national task force has been set up to monitor the development of diagnostics and vaccines. Monkeypox is a zoonotic disease caused by a…

All 15 suspected monkeypox samples from Maharashtra have tested negative for the viral disease, a senior health department official said here on Tuesday. Eight cases of monkeypox have been reported so far in India, Union Health Minister…

A 35-year-old Nigerian man, living in Delhi and having no recent history of foreign travel, has tested positive for monkeypox, taking the total number of infected people in the country to six, official sources said on Monday. He is the…

Samples of a 22-year-old man, who died in Kerala on July 30, came out positive for monkeypox on Monday, reported PTI citing the official sources. The man had returned to India on July 21 from UAE and was admitted to a hospital on July 27…

NEW DELHI: Kerala health minister Veena George on Sunday said they will probe the reasons behind the death of a 22-year-old young man who recently returned from UAE and allegedly died due to monkeypoxon Saturday. Swab samples of the…

Nine out of ten samples of suspected monkeypox infection sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) here have tested negative for the viral disease, a senior health official said on Thursday. The result of one patient was yet to…

A suspected monkeypox patient, admitted at the LNJP Hospital here, was discharged after testing negative on Thursday, a senior doctor said. The Ghaziabad man, in his 30s, has been diagnosed with chickenpox, he said. The man was admitted…