{"id":249175,"date":"2024-09-24T00:29:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T18:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=249175"},"modified":"2024-09-24T00:29:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T18:59:04","slug":"first-case-of-mpox-strain-in-india-led-who-to-declare-it-public-health-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/09\/24\/first-case-of-mpox-strain-in-india-led-who-to-declare-it-public-health-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"First case of Mpox strain in India led WHO to declare it public health emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 23 Sep:<\/strong> India reported the first case of the Mpox strain which led to the WHO declaring it a public health emergency last month. The strain was found in a patient from Kerala who had tested positive last week, official sources said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They said that the Clade 1b strain has been detected in the 38-year-old man from Malappuram district who had recently returned from the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The patient is stable, the sources said, adding that &#8220;this was the first case of the current strain that led to the World Health Organisation declaring Mpox a public health emergency last month for a second time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The earlier case of Mpox that emerged in the national capital was a 26-year-old resident of Haryana&#8217;s Hisar, who tested positive for the previous West African Clade 2 strain earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the 2022 declaration of Mpox as a public health emergency of international concern by the WHO, 30 cases have been reported in India. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 23 Sep: India reported the first case of the Mpox strain which led to the WHO declaring it a public health emergency last month. The strain was found in a patient from Kerala who had tested positive last week, official sources said on Monday. They said that the Clade 1b strain has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-249175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}