The Ministry of Health confirmed the second death in Argentina from mpox (monkeypox) of a person who presented risk factors and reported that 1,025 is the total number of cases reported in the country of this disease.
At the end of November, the death of a 44-year-old man who had been diagnosed with HIV without treatment and was admitted to intensive care in the city of Buenos Aires (CABA) was notified.
According to the National Epidemiological Bulletin (BEN), the total number of cases amounts to 1,025, according to data up to November 22, and 98.14% of the cases correspond to persons of the legal male sex (19 correspond to the legal female sex). , 4 trans gender and 15 cis gender).
The BEN confirmed cases in 16 jurisdictions and suspects in 23 and they continue to be concentrated in the Central region, in large urban conglomerates (66% of the confirmed cases were registered in residents of the CABA and together with the provinces of Buenos Aires and Córdoba, concentrate 95%).
The median age is 35 years, with a minimum of 0 years and a maximum of 78 years.
The confirmed cases so far in the country were mainly characterized by the presence of vesicular exanthemas (skin eruptions) in different locations including the genitals, perianals, hands, torso, and face, fever, and lymphadenopathy.
Of the 1,025 confirmed cases, up to now 68 have reported a travel history prior to the onset of symptoms, while, of the remaining cases, information is available for 667 confirmed cases, for which there is a distribution of contact history physical with suspected/confirmed/symptomatic cases, physical contact with traveler, multiple/occasional relationships.
In addition, of the total number of cases, 677 were confirmed in the city of Buenos Aires, 274 are inhabitants of different districts of Buenos Aires, 23 from Córdoba, 17 from Santa Fe, 9 from Tierra del Fuego, 5 from Río Negro, 4 in Mendoza, 4 in Santa Cruz, 3 in Neuquén, 2 in Chubut, 2 in Tucumán, 1 in Chaco, 1 in Corrientes, 1 in Jujuy, 1 in Salta and 1 in San Juan.
The WHO had announced that monkeypox (monkeypox in English) was renamed mpox in all languages, after “racist and stigmatizing statements” were registered by the initial name.
According to WHO data, from January 1 to January 3, 2023, there were 83,974 laboratory-confirmed monkeypox cases in 110 countries/territories/areas and 75 deaths distributed in five of the six regions of the organization.
86.1% of the cases are concentrated in 9 countries: United States, Brazil, France, Colombia, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Chile and the Netherlands.
96.9% of the cases with available data are male, the median age is 34 years and 1% of the cases with data on age are between 0 and 17 years, of which 0 3% are between 0 and 4 years old.