India
oi-Prakash KL
New
Delhi,
Sep
19:
A
30-year-old
Nigerian
woman
has
tested
positive
for
monkeypox
in
Delhi,
making
it
the
city’s
ninth
and
India’s
14th
case
of
the
infection,
officials
said
on
Monday.
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The
woman
was
admitted
to
the
LNJP
Hospital
here
with
blisters
and
pus-filled
lesions
on
genitals
on
September
16.
Her
test
report
came
back
on
Sunday,
they
added.
Another
suspected
patient,
also
of
Nigerian
origin,
was
admitted
to
the
state-run
hospital
on
Sunday.
His
test
reports
are
awaited.
Monkeypox
is
a
viral
zoonotic
disease
having
common
symptoms
such
as
fever,
skin
lesions,
lymphadenopathy,
headache,
muscle
aches,
exhaustion,
chills
or
sweats
and
sore
throat
and
cough.
…