The health authorities in Spain will begin vaccinating close contacts with confirmed monkeypox cases, news agency Reuters reported quoting health ministry officials. The European nation has more than 242 people tested positive so far.
Brazil has become the latest country to report its first case of a patient infected with the virus. A 41-year-old infected man had travelled to both Spain and Portugal, the country’s health ministry said in a statement. In New York, the health officials suspect infection in ten people after they tested positive for Orthopoxvirus. “Most of these people have had mild cases, have not been hospitalized and have recovered on their own,” an update on the city’s health website read.
“WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the risk of monkeypox becoming established in these non-endemic countries was real but preventable. The zoonotic disease is endemic in humans in nine African countries.”
