The Spanish authorities announced the death of the first infected patient

The Spanish authorities announced the death of the first infected patient

He is the first monkeypox patient to die in Europe.

The Spanish Ministry of Health announced, on Friday, the death of a person infected with monkeypox, which is the first death recorded in Europe for a patient infected with this disease.

In its report issued on Friday, the Ministry’s Health Alerts and Emergency Coordination Center said in its Friday report that in Spain, one of the countries with the highest number of cases in the world, 4,298 people were infected and one person died. The date of this death.

Shortly before, Brazil reported the death of a 41-year-old man on its soil carrying monkeypox, the first death linked to the disease outside Africa and the sixth in the world.

Highest alert level triggered

On July 23, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued its highest level of alert, a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (USPPI), to step up the control of monkeypox.

According to the World Health Organization, more than 18,000 cases have been detected worldwide since the beginning of May, outside the endemic areas of Africa.

The disease has been reported in 78 countries, with 70% of cases concentrated in Europe and 25% in the Americas, the organization’s director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Wednesday. Its early symptoms include a high temperature, swollen lymph nodes, and a chickenpox-like rash.

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