Mexican health authorities confirmed this Saturday, May 28, the first case of smallpox of mono in the country. This is a 50-year-old man living in the United States.
“Today (Saturday) we confirm the first imported case of smallpox monkey in Mexico. He is a 50-year-old man, a permanent resident of New York City, who probably caught it in the Netherlands. He is treated in CDMX (Mexico City) ”, the country’s Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, reported on Twitter.
“Fortunately, He is stable and in preventive isolation.. We hope that he will recover without complications,” she added.
López-Gatell did not specify the patient’s nationality or details about possible contacts with other people.
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Last Friday, Argentine health authorities confirmed the first two cases of the disease in that country and in the region.
The first confirmed was a 40-year-old man who had returned to Argentina from Spain, while the second is a resident of that same European country, who is visiting the province of Buenos Aires and has no connection with the previous patient. .
The smallpox of mono It is an infectious disease caused by a virus transmitted to humans by infected animals. Person-to-person transmission is possible but is considered rare.
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The condition was first identified in humans in 1970, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Currently, it is considered endemic in a dozen African countries.
Its appearance in non-endemic countries is what worries experts. So far, confirmed cases in non-endemic regions are generally benign and no deaths have been reported.
With information from AFP.