There are already more than 1,100 cases of monkeypox worldwide in 24 countries

• Infectious Monkeypox: Who will be able to receive one of the first 200 vaccines that Health has acquired?

The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC for its acronym in English) has today published a new update on the outbreak of

or monkeypox and has confirmed that

The ECDC reports that since the last update on May 31, "385 cases of monkeypox have been reported in 16 EU countries: Portugal (95), Germany (92), Spain (78), France (49 ), the Netherlands (28), Italy (15), Belgium (7), Ireland (6), Slovenia (4), Latvia (2), Norway (2), Sweden (2), Czechia (1), Denmark ( 1), Finland (2) and Hungary (1)."

Also.

there are eight non-EU countries that have also been registering affected by this infection since the last count.

Thus, since the last update, "238 cases of monkeypox have been reported in eight non-EU countries: the United Kingdom (142), Canada (55), the United States (20), the United Arab Emirates (9), Switzerland (6), Australia (4), Israel (1) and Morocco (1)"

In the case of Spain,

the European authority indicates that in our country there are already 198 confirmed cases, however, based on the last count provided yesterday by

, with another 492 under study as cases are considered for now. suspects.

The European body explains in its new report that "the majority of cases are in young men, who identify themselves as men who have sex with men (MSM).

. The clinical presentation is generally described as mild , and most cases present with lesions on the genitalia or perigenital area, indicating that transmission likely occurred through close physical contact during sexual activities."

No from the WHO to mass vaccination

In any case, the ECDC notes that

for people who have multiple sexual partners (including some groups of MSM) and low for the general population."

On the other hand, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has asked countries to make all necessary efforts to identify all cases and contacts themselves in order to control the outbreak and prevent further spread of the virus, reports

.

"No deaths have been reported in the affected countries, but there are many cases, which are not only among men who have sex with men, but there are already cases of community transmission and infected women,"

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Tedros recalled that throughout this year there have been 1,400 suspected cases of monkeypox in Africa and 66 deaths, and

"This virus has been circulating and killing people in Africa for decades without the international community paying attention to it; it is necessary to provide health care and access to tools in these areas to protect themselves," said the director general of WHO, and has insisted that the body is not in favor of mass vaccination, although it is in favor of facilitating access to vaccines for those who need it.

Spain already has 200 doses of vaccine against monkeypox.

Specifically, it is the formula of the Danish Bavarian Nordic pharmaceutical company,

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