Kerala Government Issues Standard Operating Procedure For Monkeypox Treatment

The risk of infection is high through close physical or direct skin-to-skin contact or sexual intercourse with an infected person or by touching their bedding or clothing.

In the wake of two confirmed cases of Monkeypox in the country being reported from Kerala, the state government on Wednesday issued standard operating procedures (SOP) for isolation, sample collection and treatment of those infected or showing signs of the same.

Kerala Health Minister Veena George, in a release, gave details of the SOP which are to be followed by all private and government hospitals.

She said that any person who has travelled in the last 21 days to a country where Monkeypox has been reported and is having red spots on the body along with one or more of the other symptoms, like fever, headache, body ache or fever, should suspect infection by the virus.

The minister, in the release, further said that risk of infection is high through close physical or direct skin-to-skin contact or sexual intercourse with an infected person or by touching their bedding or clothing.