Portugal is the second European country with the most cases of monkey pox – Sociedade
Portugal is the second European country with the highest number of cases (191) of confirmed cases of infection with the Monkeypox virus, just behind Spain (259), according to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO) on this outbreak this Saturday.
Data has now been released for confirmed cases reported to the WHO between 1 May and 8 June last, although the WHO has recorded that there were already 1,536 suspected cases reported in the WHO African Region, May and 8 June of the beginning of the year. , there were already 1,536 suspected cases reported in the WHO African Region of which 59 cases were confirmed and 72 deaths reported.
According to the WHO, as of 8 June, 1,285 laboratory-confirmed cases and one probable case had been reported to the WHO by 8 countries in four WHO regions8 where smallpox is not common or had not been previously reported.
This – refers to WHO – an increase of 505 laboratory-confirmed cases since the previous “Disease Outbreak News” on June 4, 202 reports reported when there were 780 reported cases. However, as of June 8, 2022, there were no associated deaths related to four regions.
As for Europe and on May 13 and June 8, Spain (259) and Portugal (191) appear in the previous period in the number of cases followed by Germany (113), France (66), Netherlands (54) Italy (29) and Belgium (24).
In the Americas, Canada has 110 confirmed cases, followed by the United States (40), Argentina (1) and Mexico (1).
The report also indicates that in the Eastern Mediterranean area, the United Arab Emirates has 13 cases, while Morocco has only one confirmed case.
In relation to Africa, the report covers a longer period, from last January to January 8, with the most worrying situation in the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 10 confirmed, 1,356 suspected cases and 64 deaths, followed by Nigeria, with 31 confirmed cases, 110 suspected cases and one death.
The Central African Republic had eight confirmed cases, 17 suspected cases and two deaths, while Ghana had confirmed cases, 12 suspected cases and no deaths. Cameroon recorded three confirmed cases, 28 suspected cases and two deaths.
In total, the eight African countries included in the WHO framework account for 59 confirmed cases, 1,536 suspected cases between January and June 8th.
According to WHO, continued detection of the virus and related deaths in some countries in the African Region highlight the need to better understand the source of the outbreak, transmission dynamics and provide people with the information and support they need to protect themselves. and others in the most varied contexts.
The World Health Organization reports that the appearance of “sudden and unexpected events” popularly known as “smallpox”, simultaneously in regions without connections from several immediate trips to areas that may have public representatives for a long time suggests that we would have the possibility of transmission of the virus not detected for several weeks or more.
Analyzing the situation, the WHO classified the risk at a global level as “moderate”, considering that this is the first time that many cases and clusters of va are simultaneously occurring in many countries in widely different WHO geographical areas.
Of the cases reported in these regions, the majority (87%) of confirmed cases are from the WHO European Region (1112), but confirmed cases were also reported in the Region of the Americas (153), Eastern Mediterranean Region (14) and Western Pacific Region. (6).
To date, even the WHO, the clinical presentation of monkeypox cases associated with this outbreak has been variable. cases in these not shown the classically described clinician for monkey pox outbreaks
As the unique and difficult characteristics to be included are totally different, such as: presentation of single lesions or even single lesions, surgery that initially do not spread further, that appear at the time of development, and the appearance of functioning devices even by infected lesions.
The modes of transmission during contact is sexual, that is, unknown, although close physical contact is known to lead to transmission of the virus, it is not sensitive to sex, including semen of the virus vagina.