A 32-year-old migrant worker at a granite factory, at Arempula village in Khammam rural mandal, reportedly developed symptoms suspected to be of monkeypox.
The person, hailing from Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday turned up at a private hospital in Khammam with skin rash and other symptoms of monkeypox, sources said.
According to sources, he was kept under observation at the hospital for sometime and later shifted to the Fever Hospital, the nodal centre for treatment of suspected monkeypox cases, at Nallakunta in Hyderabad in consultation with the district health authorities.