Prognosis
Indian State Probing Asia’s First Possible Monkeypox-Linked Death
- Patient had tested positive before traveling to India from UAE
- Man aged 22 died in hospital on July 30 in Kerala state
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A man who died in India after testing positive for monkeypox in the United Arab Emirates may be Asia’s first fatality linked to the global outbreak.
The 22-year-old died July 30 in a hospital in the southern state of Kerala, where he was treated for fatigue and encephalitis. Authorities subsequently learned that he’d tested positive for the monkeypox virus on July 20, the day before he returned to India, Veena George, Kerala’s health minister, told reporters on Sunday.