Suspected monkeypox patient found in Nepal

Kathmandu: Patient with symptoms similar to those infected with the monkeypox virus have been found in Nepal.

A young man undergoing treatment at Shukraraj Tropical and Communicable Diseases Hospital in Teku, Kathmandu has been given similar symptoms of monkeypox infection.

The health desk at Tribhuvan International Airport had sent him to the hospital on suspicion of contracting the monkeypox virus when he arrived in Nepal from Dubai.