{"id":21190,"date":"2026-04-09T12:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21190"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:28:30","slug":"second-monkeypox-case-reported-in-karachi-22-year-old-patient-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21190","title":{"rendered":"Second Monkeypox Case Reported in Karachi, 22-Year-Old Patient Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A second case of monkeypox has been reported in Karachi, raising health concerns in the city.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the Medical Superintendent of Sindh Infectious Diseases Hospital, monkeypox has been confirmed in a 22-year-old male, who has been placed under medical observation.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the patient is a resident of Buffer Zone and was shifted to isolation after testing positive, in order to prevent further spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The MS added that the affected individual has no recent travel history, increasing concerns about possible local transmission.<\/p>\n<p>According to hospital officials, the first case of monkeypox in Karachi was reported in March, highlighting the importance of continued surveillance and monitoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second case of monkeypox has been reported in Karachi, raising health concerns in the city. According to the Medical Superintendent of Sindh Infectious Diseases Hospital, monkeypox has been confirmed in a 22-year-old male, who has been placed under medical observation. He stated that the patient is a resident of Buffer Zone and was shifted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[496,74,1805,62,11760,4359],"class_list":["post-21190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-health","tag-karachi","tag-monkeypox","tag-pakistan","tag-sindh-infectious-diseases-hospital","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21192,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21190\/revisions\/21192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}