The country reported the first case of Mpox Clade 1 on Monday, and is the strain declared a public health emergency by WHO.
India on Monday reported its first case of the Mpox clade 1 strain, sources in the government told PTI.
The same strain was responsible for the WHO declaration of Mpox as a public health emergency of international concern last month.
The Mpox clade 1 strain has been detected in a person from Kerala, reported PTI.
Sources said the Clade 1b strain had been detected in the 38-year-old man from Malappuram district who had returned recently from the United Arab Emirates. The patient is stable and under observation now.
“This was the first case of the current strain that led the World Health Organisation to declare Mpox a public health emergency last month for the second time,” the official sources said.
Manisha Verma, a spokesperson for the health ministry, confirmed the strain after official sources, according to news agency ANI, said that the pox case reported in Kerala’s Malappuram district last week belonged to clade 1.
An Mpox case was reported in the national capital earlier this month when a 26-year-old resident of Hisar in Haryana tested positive for the earlier West African Clade 2 strain.
Since the WHO declared Mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in 2022, 30 cases have been reported in India.
