Health officials have mounted a vigil along Karnataka’s borders with Kerala in Mysuru and Chamarajanagar districts in the wake of the country’s first confirmed case of monkey pox reported from the neighbouring State.
While health officials in Mysuru said that a team of personnel were screening all the passengers entering Karnataka from Kerala through the Bavali checkpost in H.D. Kote since Friday, Chamarajanagar district health officials have sounded an alert in the health facilities in villages along the border with Kerala for persons with symptoms of monkey pox.
H.D Kote Taluk Health officer Ravi Kumar said a team of health officials had been deployed at the inter-state checkpost at Bavali. “We are checking the passengers of all the vehicles passing through the checkpost for fever, rashes on the body or other symptoms of monkey pox”, the official said.
