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  • Pakistan: 2022 Monkeypox - unconfirmed report - NIH issues alert - May 23, 2022

    Source: https://propakistani.pk/2022/05/23/f...d-in-pakistan/

    First 2 Cases of Monkeypox Detected in Pakistan
    By Haroon Hayder | Published May 23, 2022 | 3:48 pm

    ...According to unconfirmed reports, two cases of monkeypox have been detected in Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital. The infected patients have been isolated and are currently being treated at the hospital’s isolation ward.

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    Pakistan's top health body issues monkeypox alert
    May 23, 2022

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    The body further said that all the big private and government hospitals were directed to establish isolation wards. It also advised the medical staff at the hospitals to be careful around monkeypox patients.



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        Source: https://www.laprensalatina.com/pakis...n-the-country/

        Pakistan denies WHO reports of monkeypox cases in the country
        Online News EditorMay 24, 2022

        Islamabad, May 24 (EFE).- Health authorities in Pakistan said Tuesday that no cases of monkeypox have been reported in the country after a World Health Organization data showed two cases were diagnosed in the south Asian nation.

        “No case of monkeypox has been diagnosed in Pakistan so far,” Dr Mumtaz Ali, head of epidemic cell at the National Institutes of Health, told EFE.

        The health official said there was no truth to the reports circulating on social media about the cases being diagnosed, but the situation was being closely monitored by the health authorities.

        “WHO cannot report a case unless we report to them because we are the source for them here,” Ali underlined...

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