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The Ministry of

Health

has reported this Friday a total of

98 confirmed cases

of monkeypox, 14 more than yesterday, after analyzes carried out by the National Center for Microbiology of the Carlos III Health Institute in Madrid.

Until today, the https://www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/salud/2022/05/26/628f32b3fc6c83bd268b456e.html Instituto de Salud Carlos III

has received samples belonging to 200 suspected cases of 'Monkeypox'

or smallpox mono, 43 more than those notified yesterday, Thursday.

The research center has confirmed 98 positive cases of 'orthopoxvirus', so they are confirmed cases of monkeypox.

Another

102 cases have tested negative for smallpox and other orthopoxviruses

, so they are ruled out as 'Monkeypox' cases.

First recorded case of monkeypox in a woman

In the last 24 hours, the Department of Health of the Generalitat has confirmed the

first four cases of

monkeypox

in Catalonia

;

while from the Community of Madrid it announced the first case of monkeypox or monkeypox in a woman.

The Community of Madrid continues to be the one that has notified the most cases throughout the national territory

.

This Thursday it reported that there are already 65 confirmed cases of monkeypox or monkeypox, one of them a woman related to the chain of infections already established.

While another 30 patients remain under investigation awaiting results.

They are outbreaks, "it cannot be considered an epidemic"

The spokesman for the Spanish Society of General and Family Physicians, Lorenzo Armenteros from Lugo, does not rule out "massive infections" due to the well-known monkeypox, of which

three suspected cases have been detected in Galicia.

For now, he has stated that

"it cannot be considered an epidemic"

and he trusts that "it will not become an epidemic because it is a disease that has been known for years."

"As seen with Covid

, massive infections cannot be ruled out,

we hope that the authorities will avoid it and take the appropriate measures for it," he commented.

Armenteros has insisted on conveying a message of "tranquility" because "in this case there is a vaccine" although, he clarifies, that "there is also the problem that in Spain they stopped vaccinating (against smallpox) since the 1980s and since then decade are unprotected against this disease that is not as serious as Covid or smallpox".

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