The Public Health Section of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Health Department has confirmed the province's eighth case of mpox. According to officials, a 31-year-old male passenger was screened at Peshawar Airport while departing for Dubai. Upon suspicion, his samples were sent to the Public Health Reference Laboratory at Khyber Medical University (KMU), where the presence of the mpox virus was confirmed.
The individual had arrived in Pakistan on April 16. Following confirmation of the case, the Health Department issued directives to the District Health Officer (DHO) Khyber for immediate surveillance and contact tracing. The patient has since been transferred to the isolation ward at Police Services Hospital, Peshawar, to prevent further transmission. The K-P Health Department is actively monitoring the situation and has urged the public to remain vigilant and report any suspected symptoms promptly.
In a related development, health authorities have clarified that the mpox case reported in March involving a woman from Dogra, Khyber district, was not a case of local transmission.
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