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Andalusia has recorded 32 cases of monkey virus since the beginning of 2024 compared to 31 in all of 2023
EUROPA PRESS
NEWS25.02.2024 - 16:32h
Seville is the province that registers the highest number of infections with a total of 19.
They confirm three cases of monkeypox in Seville, including a 6-year-old child, and urge his class to be vaccinated.
So far in 2024, Andalusia has recorded a total of 32 cases of monkey virus compared to the 31 with which it closed in 2023. The incidence rate in 2024 is 0.97 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The province of Seville is the one that registers the highest number, with 19. In fact, in the capital of Seville, the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs identified three cases in the family this past Friday, February 23, affecting two adults and one minor under 6 years of age from Seville "in a slight way".
Due to its "possible impact in the school environment", both from Health and Consumption and from the Department of Educational Development and Vocational Training, the parents of the minor's classmates have been summoned this weekend with the aim of informing them about the actions that will be carried out in the center itself, as well as the prevention measures to be taken against this disease, among them, vaccination "as soon as possible and exclusively for the minor's classmates."
At the start of 2024, four cases have been detected in Cádiz; one in Huelva, eight in Malaga and the 19 referred from Seville. In 2023, there were five cases in the Cadiz province; one in Córdoba; twelve in Malaga and twelve in Seville, bringing the total to 31. The incidence rate in 2023 was 0.61 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, according to data provided by the Ministry of Health.
Regarding vaccination, the doses administered from July 18, 2022 to January 2024 have been 6,232. The number of people who have received one dose has been 3,741 and 2,491 have received two doses. By indication criterion, 2,971 (84.5% of the total) people received it for "pre-exposure) compared to 255 for post-exposure and another 515 for "other reasons". So far in 2024 and as of February 23, Health It has administered the first dose to 284 people and two doses to 197, according to Board figures.
"It is important to remember that a person without symptoms cannot transmit the virus. Therefore, the probability of contagion in the school environment is low," the Board clarified after learning of the case of a child under six years of age in Seville. The disease generally presents with mild symptoms. The way Mpox is transmitted is, fundamentally, through prolonged and close physical contact, or through the secretions of the infected person.
In the same way that we proceed with other infections, such as hepatitis A and chickenpox, and due to the special protection that is always sought at these ages, Salud y Consumo has recommended "as soon as possible and exclusively to the minor's classmates." vaccination against Mpox in order to increase its effectiveness".
Starting this coming Monday, the SAS will contact each of the parents in the class of the infected minor in Seville to remind them of the prevention measures. The vaccination consists of a single dose of 0.5 ml and administered subcutaneously. This recommendation for vaccination in pediatric age is expressly included and recommended in the Instruction of the General Directorate of Public Health and Pharmaceutical Regulation 11/2023.
Andalusia has recorded 32 cases of monkey virus since the beginning of 2024 compared to 31 in all of 2023
EUROPA PRESS
NEWS25.02.2024 - 16:32h
Seville is the province that registers the highest number of infections with a total of 19.
They confirm three cases of monkeypox in Seville, including a 6-year-old child, and urge his class to be vaccinated.
So far in 2024, Andalusia has recorded a total of 32 cases of monkey virus compared to the 31 with which it closed in 2023. The incidence rate in 2024 is 0.97 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The province of Seville is the one that registers the highest number, with 19. In fact, in the capital of Seville, the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs identified three cases in the family this past Friday, February 23, affecting two adults and one minor under 6 years of age from Seville "in a slight way".
Due to its "possible impact in the school environment", both from Health and Consumption and from the Department of Educational Development and Vocational Training, the parents of the minor's classmates have been summoned this weekend with the aim of informing them about the actions that will be carried out in the center itself, as well as the prevention measures to be taken against this disease, among them, vaccination "as soon as possible and exclusively for the minor's classmates."
At the start of 2024, four cases have been detected in Cádiz; one in Huelva, eight in Malaga and the 19 referred from Seville. In 2023, there were five cases in the Cadiz province; one in Córdoba; twelve in Malaga and twelve in Seville, bringing the total to 31. The incidence rate in 2023 was 0.61 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, according to data provided by the Ministry of Health.
Regarding vaccination, the doses administered from July 18, 2022 to January 2024 have been 6,232. The number of people who have received one dose has been 3,741 and 2,491 have received two doses. By indication criterion, 2,971 (84.5% of the total) people received it for "pre-exposure) compared to 255 for post-exposure and another 515 for "other reasons". So far in 2024 and as of February 23, Health It has administered the first dose to 284 people and two doses to 197, according to Board figures.
"It is important to remember that a person without symptoms cannot transmit the virus. Therefore, the probability of contagion in the school environment is low," the Board clarified after learning of the case of a child under six years of age in Seville. The disease generally presents with mild symptoms. The way Mpox is transmitted is, fundamentally, through prolonged and close physical contact, or through the secretions of the infected person.
In the same way that we proceed with other infections, such as hepatitis A and chickenpox, and due to the special protection that is always sought at these ages, Salud y Consumo has recommended "as soon as possible and exclusively to the minor's classmates." vaccination against Mpox in order to increase its effectiveness".
Starting this coming Monday, the SAS will contact each of the parents in the class of the infected minor in Seville to remind them of the prevention measures. The vaccination consists of a single dose of 0.5 ml and administered subcutaneously. This recommendation for vaccination in pediatric age is expressly included and recommended in the Instruction of the General Directorate of Public Health and Pharmaceutical Regulation 11/2023.
