The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) may conduct a sero-survey among contacts of monkeypox patients to check for the presence of antibodies and find out how many of them were asymptomatic, official sources said on August 19, 2022.
As of now, it is not known what is the proportion of people who stay asymptomatic of the viral infection, they said.
India so far has reported ten cases of monkeypox.