Mexico confirms its first case of monkeypox

Mexico confirmed on Saturday its first case of monkey pox in a person residing in New York who had traveled to the Netherlands.

The 50-year-old man has mild symptoms and was preventively isolated, the Mexican Ministry of Health said in a statement. He noted that the person probably caught it in the Netherlands.

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“Fortunately, he is stable and in preventive isolation. We hope he recovers without complications.” The Undersecretary of Health Prevention and Promotion of Mexico, Hugo López-Gatell, pointed out on his Twitter account.

Argentina reported the day before the first confirmed cases of monkeypox in Latin America. In one of the cases it is an Argentine who was traveling in Spain and in the other a resident of that country who came to visit the province of Buenos Aires.

Several Latin American nations were closely following the situation in Argentina for fear that the virus would reach their territories.

The Bolivian government declared an epidemiological alert on Wednesday after Argentina reported the suspected case. Two days earlier, the National Institute of Health of Colombia reported that it was monitoring people who would have had contact with a Spanish citizen traveling in the country because it was possible that during his visit he was in “the incubation period, totally asymptomatic.” .

Nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported so far in more than 20 countries that usually do not have outbreaks of the disease, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Spain, Portugal, Italy, the United States and Australia, among others, have reported cases of this disease transmitted from animals such as rodents and primates to humans.

Symptoms include fever, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes, and a severe chickenpox-like skin rash. Infection occurs through direct contact with blood, body fluids, skin lesions, or mucous membranes of infected animals.

Source: Elcomercio

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