Spain: cases of monkeypox detected in a tattoo parlor in Andalusia

Monkeypox test tubes showing positive and negative results, May 23, 2022. © DADO RUVIC/REUTERS

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New cases of monkeypox have been detected in Spain, Andalusia, in a tattoo establishment.

This brings to 3,125 the number of people infected with this disease, which is now the subject of an alert from the WHO.

Apart from the African continent, Spain is the country most affected by this scourge, ahead of Germany, the United Kingdom and France.

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With our correspondent in Madrid,

A tattoo, micro-pigmentation and piercing center in San Fernando, a large coastal town in the province of Cadiz.

This is where new infections with the monkeypox virus occurred.

Precisely twelve cases have been identified for the first time in this type of establishment.

The news was taken very seriously by the regional health authorities of Andalusia, one of the most affected regions of the country, with more than 270 confirmed cases, to which must be added 58 under study.

These authorities immediately submitted the cases of these new infections to the official center for epidemiological investigations.

Monkeypox is transmitted through sex or through the air, if the distance is relatively close.

Questions about the practice of tattooing

But the researchers also want to know if the practice of tattooing or piercing can also be a vector of transmission that we had not thought of until then.

And if, in general, these practices are dangerous to health.

For the time being, the information has also been relayed to the national Ministry of Health so that it informs all of the 22 Spanish regions.

►Also read: Monkey pox: WHO triggers its highest level of alert

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