Officers in Mexico confirmed the nation’s first case of monkeypox.
Mexico Metropolis:
Well being officers in Mexico confirmed Saturday the nation’s first recognized case of monkeypox, in a 50-year-old US resident being handled in Mexico Metropolis.
The person, a everlasting resident of New York Metropolis, “was most likely contaminated within the Netherlands,” Hugo Lopez-Gatell, an undersecretary of well being, stated on Twitter.
“Happily, he’s steady and in preventive isolation,” Lopez-Gatell stated. “We hope he’ll get well with out problems.”
He supplied no info on the affected person’s doable contacts with different folks.
On Friday, well being authorities in Argentina confirmed the primary two recognized instances of the illness anyplace in Latin America — these of a 40-year-old man who had returned to Argentina from Spain, and of a Spaniard who was visiting Buenos Aires.
The 2 instances apparently had been unconnected.
The monkeypox virus might be transmitted to people by contaminated animals. Particular person-to-person transmission is feasible however uncommon.
Monkeypox is expounded to smallpox however is far much less extreme. Preliminary signs embody a excessive fever, swollen lymph nodes and a chickenpox-like rash.
There isn’t a particular remedy however vaccination in opposition to smallpox has been discovered to be about 85 % efficient in stopping monkeypox.
Monkeypox was first detected within the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1970 and is taken into account endemic in round a dozen African international locations.
Its look in non-endemic international locations has fearful specialists, though these instances reported thus far have been principally gentle and there have been no deaths.
There have been a minimum of a half-dozen confirmed or suspected instances within the US.
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