An infection control alert has been issued in Karachi following the confirmation of at least one monkeypox case.
A new form of the virus has triggered global concern because it seems to spread more easily through routine close contact.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared a global emergence over mpox spread. It is also pertinent to mention that there are no such vaccines for this disease.
Last year, Pakistan reported nine cases of Mpox, all among travellers returning from the Middle East and other countries with one fatality of a patient in Islamabad, who was co-infected with HIV and mpox.