2nd Latin American country records first case of monkeypox
According to Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell, the patient is a 50-year-old man from New York, USA. Most likely the patient was infected while in the Netherlands. Currently, the patient has been isolated and his health condition is stable after being treated in the city.
Previously, on May 27, Argentina was the first country in this region to confirm the first case of infection.
As of May 26, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recorded about 200 cases of smallpox in monkeys in more than 20 countries globally and another 100 cases are under investigation.
Monkeypox is an endemic disease in several African countries caused by a rare virus that is transmitted from animals to humans. The disease can be spread by contact with people, primates, rodents, or objects contaminated with the virus, through the respiratory tract, eyes, nose, and mouth, and has an incubation period of 6 to 13 days. Monkeypox has similar symptoms to smallpox but is milder, and includes symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle aches, chills, fatigue, rash and enlarged lymph nodes.
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