The meeting was attended by field and harborage health officers and indigenous firectors from indigenous services of Health & Family Welfare, the governmet said in a statement.
New Delhi The Centre on Monday asked anchorages and airfields to insure strict health webbing of all transnational trippers
to contain the spread of monkeypox on the day India reported its alternate case from Kerala.
The meeting was attended by field and harborage health officers and indigenous directors from indigenous services of Health & Family Welfare, the government said in a statement.
"They were advised to insure strict health webbing of all arriving transnational trippers
which can minimize the threat of importation of monkeypox cases into the country. They were advised andre-oriented in clinical donation of monkeypox complaint as per MoHFW's' Guidelines for operation of Monkeypox Disease'," it said.
They were also advised to coordinate with other stakeholder agencies like immigration at transnational anchorages and airfields to streamline health webbing processes.
before moment, a 31- time-old man from Kerala tested positive for monkeypox. He's being treated at Pariyaram Medical College in Kannur and is stable, the state health department has verified.
Last week, a man who had returned to Kerala from the UAE had tested positive for monkeypox.
The World Health Organization or WHO said Thursday it would reconvene its expert monkeypox commission on July 21 to decide whether the outbreak constitutes a global health exigency.
According to available statistics, nearly all cases affected therefore far are manly, with a median age of 37, with three- fifths relating as men who have coitus with men, the WHO has said.
The symptoms of monkeypox include a high fever, blown lymph bumps and a blistery chickenpox- suchlike rash.
It was first set up in monkeys in 1958, hence the name. Rodents are now seen as the main source of transmission. It spreads through close contact, both from creatures and, less generally, between humans.