Las brazilian authorities confirmed this friday July 29, the first death registered in the country due to the monkey poxa disease of which they have already detected little more than a thousand cases.
According to the Ministry of Health, the victim was “a man” who had “low immunity” and lived in the city of Uberlandia, in the state of Minas Gerais, where, according to official data, 44 of the 1,066 confirmed cases throughout the country have been registered to date.
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The region most affected by the authorities have begun to treat as an “epidemic outbreak” is the state of São Paulo, the most populous in the country, with about 42 million inhabitants, and in which 823 cases of monkey pox.
The confirmation of the The first death occurred a day after the Ministry of Health announced the creation of an emergency committee to deal with the progress of the disease.
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The Government has also reported that it has started negotiations with the World Health Organization (WHO) and with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to purchase vaccines against the disease.
Brazil is currently the second country in the Americas with the most monkeypox infections, only behind the United States. which is close to 3,000 cases, according to the latest figures released by the WHO. The first case was registered on June 8, in a 41-year-old man who arrived in São Paulo after a trip to Spain, the country most affected by the outbreak in the world.