One mpox case confirmed in Pakistan as KP officials withdraw statement of more patients

 

One mpox case confirmed in Pakistan as KP officials withdraw statement of more patients

The health ministry on Friday confirmed at least one case of the mpox virus (previously monkeypox) in Pakistan, while Khyber Pakhtunkhwa authorities withdrew an earlier statement that three such patients had been detected in the province.

Mardan District Health Officer (DHO) Javed Iqbal said the location of the confirmed mpox patient, a man the officer said had recently returned from Saudi Arabia, was unknown.

He had initially received tests and advice at a hospital in Peshawar, Dr Iqbal told Reuters, but later returned to his home a few hours away in Mardan and then went to another district.

“When we visited his home in Mardan, it was locked from outside and his neighbours told us that the family has left for Dir,” said the Mardan DHO.

“We approached our fellow colleagues of the health department in Dir district, but they couldn’t trace him even in Dir.”

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