The Health department will focus on creating more awareness of monkeypox, its symptoms and modes of transmission among the public, dermatologists and groups exhibiting high-risk behaviour so that even in the absence of classical symptoms, a high level of suspicion of the disease will be maintained by everyone.
All three cases of monkeypox detected in Kerala so far are imported cases and in all these cases, the patients had the classical symptoms of fever, with lesions soon following.
However, with more reports from the U.K. and the rest of Europe indicating that the monkeypox symptoms in the current outbreak are different from the typical clinical picture of the disease, the threat that cases could go under the radar cannot be discounted.
