PESHAWAR: Health department has advised all public and private hospitals to remain vigilant for mpox to ensure timely isolation and testing of suspected patients after detection of more than two dozen cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the last one year.
The advisory follows an increase in suspected case referrals and laboratory-confirmed detections recorded through provincial surveillance and diagnostic services. Of the total 26 patients, 18 were men and six were women, said health officials.
They said that the zoonotic infection was initially attributed to Gulf countries from where people were deported after testing positive
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