India’s 4th monkeypox case in Delhi, patient has no foreign travel history

NEW DELHI: Delhi reported its first case of monkeypox
, and India’s fourth, on Sunday with a 34-year-old man testing positive for the disease that is spreading across the world for the first time. The man is a resident of Paschim Vihar in west Delhi and has no history of travel to countries affected by the disease, unlike the other three cases reported from Kerala, officials said.

The Delhi patient had gone on a holiday to Himachal Pradesh last month with male friends. Soon after, he developed fever but ignored the symptoms initially thinking it could be caused by seasonal changes, sources said. However, when the fever didn’t subside for almost a week and skin lesions began to appear at several places, the 34-year-old got alarmed. Sources said the man visited a physician and a skin specialist before being referred to Lok Nayak hospital – the designated centre for isolation and management of suspected and confirmed cases of monkeypox .