The Ministry of Health has released <\/span>“Guidelines on Management of Monkeypox Disease”.<\/span><\/p>\n Click Here to read about it<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n The natural reservoir of the virus is yet unknown. But certain rodents (including rope squirrels, tree squirrels, Gambian pouched rats, and dormice) and non-human primates are known to be naturally susceptible to monkeypox.<\/span><\/p>\n Monkeypox has been reported as endemic in several central and western African countries such as Cameroon, Central African Republic, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n However, cases have also been reported in certain non-endemic countries \u2014 The USA, United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy among others.<\/span><\/p>\n A <\/span>person suspected to have the Monkeypox must have a history of travel to the affected countries in the last 21 days, an unexplained rash and one of the other symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) <\/span><\/a>\u2013 a network that tracks infectious diseases in the country \u2013 has been asked to remain alert about the cases.<\/span><\/p>\n International travellers to countries reporting cases of monkeypox have been advised to not come in close contact with sick persons and dead or live wild animals. They have also been asked not to consume the meat of wild animals or use creams, lotions or powder made of it.<\/span><\/p>\n The airport health authorities have been asked to familiarize themselves with symptoms of monkeypox and conduct strict thermal screening and history of travel.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cHealth Ministry issues norms to tackle monkeypox\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>The Hindu <\/b>on 1st June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Ministry of Health has released “Guidelines on Management of Monkeypox Disease”. What is Monkeypox? Click Here to read about it What is the natural host of Monkeypox? The natural reservoir of the virus is yet unknown. But certain rodents (including rope squirrels, tree squirrels, Gambian pouched rats, and dormice) and… Continue reading Health Ministry issues norms to tackle monkeypox<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-187559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704773654},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Monkeypox?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the natural host of Monkeypox?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are the countries in which Monkeypox has been detected so far?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are the key features of the Guidelines on Monkeypox?<\/b><\/h5>\n