Spain, with 2,447 cases, becomes the country most affected by monkeypox

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Three months after the outbreak of the international outbreak of monkeypox, Spain, according to the latest data published by the National Epidemiological Surveillance Network (Renave), as of July 12, registers

becoming the country most affected by this virus both in the European Union and in the rest of the world.

Although in the count released by the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), on Monday, the figure collected for Spain reflects somewhat lower figures with 2,034 affected (this is due to the imbalance in the notification of cases from the different EU countries), our country continues to lead the world ranking of cases.

The notified cases, according to the information collected by the Ministry, offered by 16 autonomous communities, place

It is followed

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The rest of the territories do not exceed two figures: Canarias, 77;

Valencia Community, 66;

Balearic Islands, 43;

Basque Country, 34;

Aragon, 29;

Asturias, 18;

Galicia, 16;

Castile-La Mancha, 12;

Castile and Leon, 8;

Extremadura, 6;

Navarre, 6;

Murcia, 5;

and Cantabria, 4, always according to the latest Health data.

After the first

were received last month to deal with monkeypox with the idea of ​​vaccinating those who have had a "post-exposure in close contacts of confirmed or probable cases", the Community of

, being the territory with the most cases in Spain, requested

even when they have not been exposed to infection through known contact with a declared case.

That is, the pre-

of people with risky sexual practices in a group with strangers and multiple partners in the last year.

A request that has finally been agreed upon and approved at the last meeting of the Public Health Commission.

In the rest of the

countries, a total of

have been reported , this figure is almost five times that of a month ago, according to the count made by the ECDC.

Thus, Spain also ranks first with 2,034 cases, followed by Germany with 1,556;

France, 721;

the Netherlands, with 503;

Portugal, with 473;

Italy, 255;

and Belgium with 225. The rest of the countries do not reach three figures.

Austria (63), Ireland (54), Sweden (43), Norway (30), Hungary (28), Denmark (24), Poland (21), Slovenia (18), Romania (14), Finland (13), Greece (12), Czechia (10), Malta (9), Iceland (6), Luxembourg (6), Bulgaria (3), Estonia (2), Iceland (2), Croatia (1) and Slovakia (1).

In the rest of the countries, and according to the Health count, a total of 1,713 confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported in non-endemic countries, being the United States (866), Canada (401), Brazil (219) and Israel ( 66).

The

has indicated that there are more than

worldwide.

The director general of the WHO,

has assured that the current situation of the monkeypox outbreak will be

, as well as "the new changes in the virus and new criteria will be studied to determine if the strategy needs to be modified," he explained. .

In this sense, the director general of the WHO has stressed that he is working to "

that surrounds this virus, in addition to coordinating the distribution of vaccines and to advance research," he added.

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