Kerala reports India’s first confirmed monkeypox case
The first known lab-confirmed case of monkeypox in India — the official declaration is yet to come from the Union Health Ministry — has been reported in a 35-year-old male in Kerala, who reached the State capital three days ago from the UAE. State Health Minister Veena George, who earlier on Thursday informed media about a possible suspected case of monkeypox, said in Thiruvananthapuram at 7 p.m. that the National Institute of Virology, Pune had confirmed the disease.