BENGALURU (Reuters) – India on Thursday reported its first case of monkeypox, Priya Abraham, head of National Institute of Virology, told Reuters.
Monkeypox, endemic in parts of Africa, is a viral disease that causes flu-like symptoms and skin lesions.
(Reporting by Rama Venkat in Bengaluru and Shilpa Jamkhandikar in Mumbai; Editing by Anil D’Silva)