Monkeypox in Spain, last minute | Aragón confirms its first suspicious case

• Health "There is no reason for social alarm over monkeypox, but there is an epidemiological alarm"

• Health The WHO warns that more cases of monkeypox will appear

• Health Preventive Medicine of Andalusia publishes a protocol of action against monkeypox before the arrival of tourists

The case is considered

since it meets both the clinical criteria, presenting some of the symptoms of infection, and the

, having been in contact with confirmed cases in the previous 21 days, the Government of Aragon has reported.

Monkeypox cases

BY AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES

Madrid

: 39 confirmed and 40 suspects

Andalusia

: 1 confirmed and 4 suspects

Canary Islands

: 0 confirmed and 2 suspected

Castilla - La Mancha

: 0 confirmed and 1 suspect

Galicia

: 0 confirmed and 1 suspect

Extremadura

: 0 confirmed and 1 suspect

Basque Country

: 0 confirmed and 1 suspect

Aragon

: 0 confirmed and 1 suspect

BY COUNTRY

Portugal

: 23

United Kingdom

: 20

Canada

: 20

Germany

: 3

Italy

: 1

United States

: 1

Sweden

: 1

Israel

: 1

Switzerland

: 1

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12.20

Andalusian Preventive Medicine publishes an action protocol against monkeypox before the arrival of tourists

Dariusz Narankiewicz, spokesman for the Andalusian Society of Preventive Medicine, Public Health and Health Management, explained to

that although the document is based on the recommendations made known by the Ministry of Health, they wanted to detail something more in the case of Andalusia, since "we needed to act more quickly", he says.

"In Andalusia we have a lot of tourism and, in the case of Malaga, there is Torremolinos, where this tourism is mostly gay."

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12.10

Madrid studies whether there is a link between the cases of monkeypox in the capital and those in the Canary Islands

The Minister of Health of the

, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, explained that what they are looking for now is "if there is a link" between the infections of

detected in a Madrid sauna, considered the main focus of cases, and in the Canary Islands.

"You have to assess the dates of when the party took place in the

, which is where it seems to start, and then in the

, " said the counselor.

In any case, the Ministry of Health of the Canarian Government argued yesterday that it cannot, in this still preliminary phase of study of the cases, confirm the journalistic information that places Gay Pride in Maspalomas as the second Spanish outbreak of

after the detected in Madrid.

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11.34

Aragon confirms its first suspected case of monkeypox

The General Directorate of Public Health of

has sent samples from a patient to the National Center for Microbiology on suspicion that he may be affected by

This is a man who has come into contact with the health system due to symptoms (mild symptoms without the need for hospital admission) and who has already undergone a preliminary survey to establish

The

it meets both the clinical criteria, presenting some of the symptoms of infection, and the epidemiological criteria, having been in contact with confirmed cases in the previous 21 days, reports the Government of Aragon.

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11.27

"There is no reason for social alarm over monkeypox, but there is an epidemiological alarm"

This is how forceful

, epidemiologist and former director of Sanitary Action of the World Health Organization (WHO), is shown in the face of the explosion of suspected, possible and confirmed cases of those affected by

, which is already spreading throughout a dozen countries, including Spain.

"It is not an alarm comparable to that of the

pandemic . We should not think that

is going to behave the same, because it is very different," adds López Acuña.

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10.16

WHO warns that more cases of monkeypox will appear

The World Health Organization (WHO) has assured that it is necessary to expect that cases of

will continue to appear , a disease that has been detected in the last 10 days in twelve countries, including

, but whose source and route of contagion are still could not be established.

"The situation is evolving such that the

believes there will be more cases of

being identified as surveillance is extended in non-endemic countries," the organization said.

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10.02

Joe Biden admits his concern about the possible spread of monkeypox

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has affirmed that

"is something that everyone should worry about", although for now only one case has been confirmed in the North American country.

Biden has explained that he is already discussing with his advisors the potential

and that, among the aspects that still need to be clarified, is the degree of transmission of the virus.

"We are working to see what we can do and what vaccine could be used," said the US president.

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9.23

Madrid confirms 39 positive cases of monkeypox and 40 suspects

Confirmed cases of

with positive PCR in the Community of Madrid have increased from 30 to 39, while suspected cases have risen from 39 to 40, according to the latest update from the Ministry of Health.

The tracking work carried out by the General Directorate of Public Health of the Community of Madrid has made it possible to determine that most of the confirmed cases of

in the region are associated with a sauna in the capital, which was closed on the afternoon of this past Friday.

Madrid is the community that has detected the most cases of

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8.34

Confirmed cases of monkeypox in Germany rise to three

The health authorities in Berlin today reported two more cases of

in the German capital, bringing

the number of confirmed infections in Germany to

will eventually be registered in the coming days

. The condition of the patients is stable," said the regional Health Department.

The head of regional health, Ulrike Gote, has assured that "there is no reason to panic, but there is reason for caution, since many of the scientific conclusions about

are still preliminary due to its infrequency."

One of those infected is a

from Brazil who had traveled from Portugal to Germany via Spain and has been in Munich for a week;

before his arrival in the Bavarian capital he had been in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt.

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08.04.

Israel and Switzerland confirm their first case of monkeypox

Israel and Switzerland recorded their first case of

Saturday after several European countries and the United States also detected cases of the endemic disease in Central and West Africa.

In Israel, a spokesman for Tel Aviv's Ichilov hospital told AFP that a 30-year-old man, who recently returned from Western Europe, was infected.

On Friday, the Ministry of Health reported that the man, whose symptoms are mild, had been in contact with a sick person abroad.

In the case of Switzerland, the infected person, who lives in Bern, was also in contact with

abroad, according to the health directorate of that canton.

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