Monkeypox continues to spread, with new cases of human infection being reported in different countries.
According to the World Health Organization, 92 cases of infection with the dangerous virus have already been confirmed.
WHO figures
The department also informs that at the moment there have been no reports of deaths.
Regarding laboratory-confirmed cases of infection, the number mentioned is 92 as of May 21.
That’s how many people have been infected with monkeypox in 12 countries considered non-endemic.
Another 28 cases of the disease are currently under investigation, WHO representatives are quoted by Rossiya Segodnya.
Situation in Madrid
Among European countries, the largest number of monkeypox-infected countries was recorded in Spain.
In Madrid alone there are at least seven cases (according to other information – 8).
The head of the microbiology service at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital, Alberto Delgado, said the following:
We currently have 7 patients, but there are several more cases under suspicion.
What else is known
In turn, WHO states that known cases of monkeypox infection are not associated with travel to endemic areas.
It is noted that mostly men who had sex with men were infected.
It also said genome sequencing from a sample taken in Portugal revealed similarities between the monkeypox virus causing the current outbreak and imported cases from Nigeria to Israel, Singapore and the UK in 2018 and 2019.
Let us add that by this time cases of monkeypox infection are known in Albion, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and Australia.
