<p><a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/Gujarat-all" rel="none">Gujarat</a> has reported its first suspected case of <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/monkeypox-all" rel="none">monkeypox</a> with a man with no recent travel history exhibiting symptoms of the viral disease, said health department officials on Thursday.</p>
<p>His swab samples have been sent for testing, they said.</p>
<p>The 29-year-old patient, a resident of Nava Nagna village in Jamnagar district, is currently admitted to a special ward created in the city-based GG Hospital, said Dr Nandini Desai, dean of the MP Shah Government Medical College attached with the hospital.</p>
<p>"Since he was exhibiting monkeypox symptoms, such as high fever, we have sent his samples for confirmation to a laboratory in Ahmedabad. The patient has been admitted to an isolation ward in the hospital," said Desai.<br />She said the man does not have any recent travel history.</p>
<p>Monkeypox is a viral zoonosis (a virus transmitted to humans from animals) with symptoms similar to those seen in the past in smallpox patients, although it is clinically less severe. It is usually a self-limited disease with the symptoms lasting two to four weeks. The infection typically presents itself with fever, headache, rashes, sore throat, cough and swollen lymph nodes.&nbsp;</p>
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The 29-year-old patient, a resident of Nava Nagna village in Jamnagar district, is currently admitted to a special ward created in the city-based GG Hospital

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