Mpox Tamil Nadu’s Directorate of Public Health (DPH) and Preventive Medicine has asked airport and port health officers to be on high alert. The announcement was made after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox which is an illness caused by the monkeypox virus as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). So far, no cases have been reported in Tamil About Monkey Pox It is a viral zoonotic First discovered in 1958