Portugal with 588 cases of monkeypox, 73 notified in the last week
Portugal confirmed cases of infection by Monkeypox, 73 confirmed cases in the week, indicated today by the Directorate-General for Health (DGS), advancing that one of the next contacts has already started.
According to the DGS weekly report, all regions of mainland Portugal and Madeira reported cases of human infection with the VMPX virus, but the vast majority of the total cases (80.3%) were confirmed in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo.
The North is the second region of the country with the most reported cases of Monkeypox (55), followed by the Center (eight), Alentejo (five), Algarve (four) and Madeira (three). health authority.
The presence of the VMPX virus was detected in Portugal on May 3, with laboratory confirmation of five cases of infection, and, since then and until last Wednesday, 588 cases were identified.
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According to the DGS, of the universe of 391 cases reported in the Epidemiological Surveillance System, most belong to the age group between 30 and 39 years and the vast majority of infections (99.8%) are men, with one reported case of a woman, in the “context of a possible contact with a confirmed case”, advances the DGS.
In the 1st series of cases of first contacts, from the next 6 cases of first contacts were chosen, to be designated and main for the three main contacts in the still different regions of the country, informed from a preliminary contract in the still different regions of the country .
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The World Health Emergency Committee (WHO) for today was meeting for public emergency assessment if decided as a health emergency of international emergency.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed concern about the growing number of infections, adding that more than 14,000 cases have been reported to the organization from 71 countries in the six WHO regions.
According to aGS, a person who is just healing from being infective and scabs from the dermatological solutions, almost always, after four full weeks.
The most common symptoms of fever, headache, severe pain, increased back, increased skin, increased breast globules with a progressive increase in eruptions that reach the mucous membranes.