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.