Thiruvananthapuram, August 2 (BPNS) Kerala reported its fifth monkeypox virus (MPV) case on Tuesday. The new case has been reported from Malappuram. According to the health department, a 30-year-old man who returned from the UAE on July 27 got infected and is currently under treatment. At the same time, the union health ministry and the […]

Chennai, July 31 (BPNS) A 35-year-old man who arrived at Tiruchi airport on Friday is kept in isolation at Pudukottai medical college Hospital in Tamil Nadu after he showed symptoms of skin rash. Skin rash is a symptom of Monkeypox.  The  man was sent to Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital, Tiruchi on Friday but he went […]

Thiruvananthapuram, July 31 (BPNS) After a 22-year-old youth who reached Palakkad district of Kerala from a middle eastern country died on Sunday, the state health department has asked the district health officials to create a route map of his trip ever since he had landed in his hometown. Sources in the health department told BPNS […]

Thiruvananthapuram, July 30 (BPNS) The first monkeypox virus (MPV) case in the country, reported from Kerala’s Kollam district on July 14, got discharged today.  The 35-year-old man, who returned from the UAE, was undergoing treatment at the Government Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram. The hospital authorities said that he is physically and mentally fit and the […]

Dileep V Kumar, Thiruvananthapuram, July 28 With more people experiencing continued symptoms for weeks to months after their original Covid-19 infection in Kerala, a demand to conduct a comprehensive study on long Covid has been raised by public health experts. To back up their claim they point to a recent study from the World Health […]

Dileep V Kumar, Thiruvananthapuram, July 27 The fight against monkeypox virus (MPV) transmission in the state has been raised to the next level as the state health department joins hands with the Kerala State AIDS Control Society (KSACS). According to health officials, intervention programmes will be conducted among men who have sex with men (MSM) […]

Thiruvananthapuram, July 27 (BPNS) An ongoing health screening programme among people who are above 30 years old in the state has come out with some disturbing facts. It turned out that of the five-lakh people screened for lifestyle diseases so far, a majority are prone to get any of the chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), like […]

Chennai, July 25 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu state police and health department have heightened the surveillance at International airports in the state after monkey pox diseases have surfaced in Kerala and New Delhi. The state health department has set up surveillance teams at all four airports in the state to screen the passengers who are […]

New Delhi, July 23 (BPNS)  The World Health Organisation on Saturday declared the monkeypox as public health emergency of international concern. The global health body said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that now qualifies as a global emergency. “WHO’s assessment is that the risk of monkeypox is […]

Puducherry, July 23 (BPNS) The Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry will study in detail the autopsy records and submit a final report in a month’s time. This is following a directive of the Madras High Court on Friday for the same. The Madras High Court directed JIPMER to study […]