Mpox patient has recovered - MoH - video Dailymotion

Public Health PS Mary Muthoni on Tuesday said the first patient to contract Mpox has recovered.

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00:00Our Port Health officers identified a truck driver with a generalised rash at Taita Taveta's

00:07top border point on 23rd of July 2024.

00:11He reported having symptoms of two weeks prior.

00:16The patient was isolated at Taita Taveta sub-county hospital where the clinicians suspected either

00:23chicken pox or m-pox.

00:25During lesion, samples were taken, results from the National Public Health Laboratories

00:33detected m-pox on 29th of July 2024.

00:39This was validated by other reference laboratories in the National Laboratory Network.

00:46The patient has since recovered, however, due to the infectiousness of m-pox and as

00:55per international guidelines for m-pox response, the Ministry of Health and the County Health

01:01Department of Taita Taveta began identifying all persons that had been in close contact

01:08with the patient.

01:10We are tracing all his close contacts at his workplace, at the hospital where he was admitted

01:18and along his travel routes.

01:21So far, no other case has been identified in the country.

01:26The patient has travelled through Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda, so we are working

01:35with our neighbouring countries to identify any contacts and any other potential cases.