ISLAMABAD: A woman arriving from Saudi Arabia has tested positive for monkeypox virus, becoming the fourth patient of the viral infection detected in the country so far, according to the National Institute of Health (NIH).
An infectious disease expert at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, says the woman, a lab technician, who landed at Islamabad airport from Makkah, was diagnosed with mpox.
After detection of the virus, the mpox patient has been shifted to the PIMS isolation ward in the federal capital, he adds.
All the four mpox patients traced so far in Pakistan have arrived from Saudi Arabia, of them, three belong to Islamabad and one Karachi, the NIH added.
As per a federal health ministry official, there is no evidence of local transmission of the disease in the country yet.