ISLAMABAD: Officials from the Federal Ministry of Health said on Sunday that the first two people who got monkeypox in Pakistan last week now better.
Officials from the ministry said that the person from Saudi Arabia who treated at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Hospital has sent home.
The other person put in quarantine at their home and said to doing well.
Moreover, Experts in infectious diseases say that there are a lot of cases of “chickenpox” in Pakistan. People are mistaking cases of chickenpox for monkeypox, they said.
The experts asked the health ministry to pay attention to the fact that the number of smallpox cases is going up.
At the same time, the administration of Lahore’s General Hospital (GH) said on Sunday that they had found two new cases of mpox.
While, The hospital staff said that the suspects have in the hospital for two days and are getting treatment.
Moreover, According to the facts, one of the new people suspected of having the disease is a woman and the other is a man. Both were showing signs of having the disease. Their symptoms include fever, red spots, and blisters on the body of one of them.
There is no information about where the patients got the virus or if they were travelling when they got it.
