Hyderabad: In Telangana, a 40-year-old person who recently returned from abroad showed symptoms of monkeypox, PTI reported citing state health department officials' account on Sunday.
According to the sources, the patient is now placed in Government Fever Hospital in Hyderabad.
In a press release, State Director of Public Health G Srinivasa Rao said the patient had returned from Kuwait on July six and had caught fever on July 20. The person was admitted to a private hospital in the Kamareddy district on July 23 after developing rashes.
Rao said that it was the doctor at the private hospital who noticed the symptoms of monkeypox and referred the person to the government hospital in the Kamareddy district. Later the person was shifted to Fever Hospital, he said.
The samples of the patient will be collected and sent to the National Institute of Virology, Pune, and till the results arrive, the patient will be kept in isolation.
Rao said, "We have identified six people who were in contact with the person. Though they do not have any symptoms, they have also been kept in isolation."
He added that the state Health Minister T Harish Rao had reviewed the situation, and necessary measures have been taken based on his directions.