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The second deceased by monkeypox is registered in Córdoba
This has been confirmed by the Ministry of Health and Consumption of the Board. This is the second fatality of this disease after the death of a person in the Valencian Community
THE MAIL /CORDOBA /JUL 30, 2022 / 3:30 P.M. - UPDATED: JUL 30, 2022 / 3:33 P.M.
The Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs has confirmed the death of a person in Córdoba with meningoencephalitis , a case that is being studied for its association with monkeypox infection (monkeypox, MPX) and which would be the second recorded in Spain .
In a statement, Health has reported that the deceased, a 31-year-old man, remained in the Intensive Care Unit of the Reina Sofía University Hospital in Córdoba.
The samples taken during the necropsy, which are being studied, will determine if the cause of death is meningoencephalitis or another pathology .
This is the second fatality of this disease in Spain, after the death of a person in the Valencian Community was known this Friday.
Monkeypox now has 4,298 confirmed cases in our country, according to data from the National Epidemiological Surveillance Network (RENAVE).
To date, there are 525 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the Andalusian autonomous community, with Malaga (246), Seville (115), and Cádiz (60) being the most affected provinces.
Of the 525 confirmed cases, there are 345 active in total.
https://elcorreoweb.es/andalucia/el...ela-del-mono-se-registra-en-cordoba-IF8016587
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Andalusia registers its first death from monkeypox, a 31-year-old man at the Reina Sofía hospital
This case is the first death in the community and the second nationwide.
30 July 2022 14:26
Andalusia
The Ministry of Health and Consumption of the Junta de Andalucía has confirmed the first death in the region in Andalusia due to meningoencephalitis, whose case is being studied due to its association with monkey pox infection –monkeypox, MPX–.
The 31-year-old man remained admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Reina Sofía University Hospital in Córdoba, as detailed by the Andalusian Government in a statement, where he pointed out that the samples taken during the autopsy, which are being studied, They will determine if the cause of death is meningoencephalitis or another pathology.
Currently, there are 525 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the autonomous community, with Malaga (246), Seville (115), and Cádiz (60) being the most affected provinces. Currently, there are 345 active cases.
According to data from the National Epidemiological Surveillance Network (RENAVE) , as of July 29, a total of 4,298 confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported in Spain.
Of the 3,750 for which information is available, 120 cases have been hospitalized (3.2%) and two of them have already died, according to what was specified this Saturday by Health, which has communicated the information to the World Health Organization ( WHO) and the European Commission.
This case is the first death in the community and the second at the national level after the one registered in the Valencian Community and which was caused by encephalitis associated with the infection, as detailed by the Ministry of Universal Health.
The two deceased are young men and at this time the Public Health services of the autonomous communities to which they correspond are expanding the information on the cases. In addition, laboratory results of different samples from the National Center for Microbiology of the Carlos III Health Institute are awaited.
On the other hand, the latest Renave report also collects data by autonomous community, with Madrid (1,656) and Catalonia (1,406) being the regions with the most cases of monkeypox. They are followed by Andalusia (498), Valencian Community (213), Canary Islands (102), Basque Country (98), Balearic Islands (89), Aragon (45), Galicia (37), Asturias (36), Castilla y León (31) , Castilla-La Mancha (23), Extremadura (20), Murcia (19), Cantabria (15), Navarra (8) and La Rioja (2).
Likewise, of the patients notified on the SiViES platform, a total of 4,081 are men and 64 are women. In three patients this information is not recorded. Age ranges from 10 months to 88 years, with a mean age of 37 years.
The report also notes that 3,458 of 4,148 patients with available information "were men who have sex with men." Close contact in the context of a sexual relationship is "the most likely transmission mechanism" in 2,253 cases, 82.1%, while in 10.5% it is "by close non-sexual contact".
In relation to attendance at mass events, of the 3,137 cases with information on this variable, 560 attended an event on the dates prior to the onset of symptoms.
Health has warned that Spain is "currently one of the most affected countries globally." "During the months of May and June 2022 , there was an upward trend in reported cases that continues at the present time," he warned.
The Ministry has also indicated that, as in the rest of the countries, the cases have been identified fundamentally in the MSM population -men who have sex with men- being "the transmission mechanism in the vast majority of cases through very physical contact". narrow, primarily in the context of high-risk sexual intercourse'.
The department headed by Carolina Darias has stressed, however, that if said sustained transmission "is not optimally controlled" there will be "a significant risk" that it will spread "to other population groups by the same transmission mechanism, with the possibility of affectation of other groups and the appearance of serious cases in vulnerable populations”.
https://www.insitudiario.es/andaluc...hombre-de-31-anos-en-el-hospital-reina-sofia/