Samples collected from the first suspected monkeypox case in Telangana tested negative for the virus. Results of the test were announced on Tuesday evening.
Director of Public Health G. Srinivasa Rao said that the sample sent to National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, to test for monkeypox virus was found to be negative. Now, tests would be conducted to check if he has chickenpox.
The patient is a 35-year-old man from Kamareddy. He was admitted at Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical and Communicable Diseases, better known as Fever Hospital, in Nallakunta, Hyderabad. Superintendent of the Hospital K. Shankar said that the patient would be discharged.