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Health alert for 'monkey smallpox': Madrid confirms 7 preliminary positives and 24 suspected cases
Health has launched a health alert to the autonomous communities. As Carolina Darias explained in El Objective, seven preliminary positive cases have already been detected.
laSexta.com | Jaime Rull
Madrid
Updated:
Thursday,
May 19, 2022
14:43
The Ministry of Health and the autonomous communities have launched a health alert after detecting several dozen suspected cases of monkeypox . The patients are from Madrid and are pending confirmation through genetic tests carried out by the National Center for Microbiology. As Minister Carolina Darias herself explained yesterday in El Objective, they have already confirmed seven positives.
At this time and according to the latest data provided to laSexta by the Madrid Ministry of Health, 24 suspected cases are added to those seven confirmed positives . The Minister of Health of the Community of Madrid, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, pointed out at a press conference that all the cases have been due to close contact and that they do not rule out that more positives will be confirmed in the coming hours.
According to the General Directorate of Public Health in Madrid, the cases detected are progressing well and none have so far had to be admitted. All of them remain isolated in their homes, closely watched in case their situation changes.
Generally the transmission is by respiratory route, but due to the characteristics, the transmission points to being contact by fluids.
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Antonio Zapatero, Deputy Minister of Health Care and Public Health of the Community of Madrid, called for calm today in an interview on Onda Cero. He has explained that the contagion in most cases has been caused by contact with fluids and "by touching material from the wounds" . "It is unlikely by air, 10%," he pointed out. "The course is benign, in two weeks it is resolved and the evolution is usually favorable", he added.
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A suspicious case in Gran Canaria
The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands has detected today a possible case of monkeypox infection that is being treated at the Dr. Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria, without requiring hospital admission and that is being studied in coordination with the National Microbiology Center that will confirm or rule out the case in question.
This is a young male, who, after the epidemiological survey carried out, meets the notification criteria and case profile that the Ministry of Health has registered as an alert for monkeypox infection, also known as Monkeypox. Given his favorable evolution, he must continue his process at home with the corresponding follow-up.
Fernando Simón: "It is not likely that it will generate an important transmission"
The director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón, pointed out this Wednesday that "it is not probable that monkeypox will generate an important transmission, but it cannot be ruled out."
For this reason, he insisted that great care must be taken and, in this sense, he stressed that they are working with all possible hypotheses . According to the expert, monkeypox is a disease that, until now, was confined to Africa and was a disease similar to human smallpox , which was eradicated at the end of the 1970s, and was transmitted from monkeys to humans. and that, in general, among humans, it had very little transmission, very low.
In fact, the outbreaks until a few years ago "had no more than a second generation of transmission , but in recent years up to the third and fourth generation have been detected, which are very small, self-limited outbreaks.
In this case, it is associated with very specific population groups and the cause is being investigated and, above all, what is most interesting, the origin, which should be a case from Africa.
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It was "virtually eradicated"
Madrid confirms seven cases of monkeypox and Gran Canaria one suspect
Enrique Ruiz Escudero, explained that they are not serious and are associated with two foci, the transmission route is by very close contact, and all those diagnosed and suspected are men.
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05.19.2022 - 4:27 p.m.
There are already seven confirmed cases by the Community of Madrid of monkeypox and it has another 24 suspects pending the test that confirms this disease, sources from the Ministry of Health have indicated to Efe. The cases detected in the Madrid region - none of them are serious - are mainly associated with two foci, the transmission route is by very close contact, and all those diagnosed and suspected are men, as explained by the Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, in statements to the media.
Convinced that more cases will appear, the counselor has indicated that what is surprising about the appearance of this disease is the wide geographical distribution (cases have been registered in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Portugal and France) when it was " practically eradicated" , after some cases occurred in the 70s and an outbreak in 2003. Ruiz Escudero congratulated the General Directorate of Public Health because since the alert was launched by the Ministry of Health in just 24 hours they have detected all these cases and the epidemiological alert has been made.
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Now, he added, epidemiological surveillance will be prioritized, with surveys of all patients who have been infected, control of isolations and monitoring of the clinical evolution of patients. The symptoms are fever, chills and inguinal lymphadenopathy, but what most complicates the disease are the skin lesions it produces on the face and hands, similar to that caused by chickenpox. Ruiz Escudero has pointed out that the decision to administer the smallpox vaccine to prevent the appearance of the disease, if possible, must be adopted by the Spanish Medicines Agency in coordination with the autonomous communities.
"We will have to start wondering why such an extensive geographical distribution worldwide", he said. "The degree of concern is not like in other situations. Since the transmission route is very close contact, it cannot have the dimensions of Covid because Covid has an even easier transmission than it is by air," he stressed.
The Canarian Ministry of Health has detected this Thursday a possible case of monkeypox infection that is being treated at the Doctor Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria, without requiring hospital admission, and that is being studied in coordination with the National Center for Microbiology, which will confirm or rule it out.
This is a young man who, after the epidemiological survey carried out, meets the notification criteria and case profile that the Ministry of Health has registered as an alert for monkeypox infection, also known as Monkeypox. Given his favorable evolution, he must continue his process at home with the corresponding follow-up, the Canarian Executive department specifies in a statement.
It can be transmitted by the respiratory route. However, current suspected cases of infection respond to contact with mucous membranes during sexual intercourse . The case under investigation will be notified this Thursday to the Ministry of Health and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), as indicated by the protocols.
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