A two-year-old girl being treated for fever and rashes at the Government General Hospital (GGH) here tested negative for the monkeypox virus.
Suspecting that the child contracted the virus, authorities of the Health Department sent her samples, who had a recent history of international travel, to the National Institute of Virology, Pune on Saturday.
The test result came out negative for the virus and there are no cases of monkeypox in Andhra Pradesh, said Health and Family Welfare Commissioner J. Nivas in a release on Sunday.
