With monkeypox having landed in India, the state Health Department is on alert for any possible signs that the disease has arrived in Meghalaya.
One person in India has so far died from the disease, which has been categorised as a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organisation.
Monkeypox spreads through close, personal, often skin-to-skin, contact, often directly with rashes or body fluids from an infected person, by touching objects and fabrics that have been used by someone with monkeypox or through respiratory secretions.
With Covid-19 cases rising in Meghalaya again, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said today that the state’s health machinery is on an alert “in every respect.”
