Mexico City: Health officials in Mexico confirmed Saturday the country’s first known case of monkeypox, in a 50-year-old US resident being treated in Mexico City.<\/p>\n
The man, a permanent resident of New York City, “was probably infected in the Netherlands,” Hugo Lopez-Gatell, an undersecretary of health, said on Twitter.<\/p>\n
“Fortunately, he is stable and in preventive isolation,” Lopez-Gatell said. “We hope he will recover without complications.”<\/p>\n
He provided no information on the patient’s possible contacts with other people.<\/p>\n
On Friday, health authorities in Argentina confirmed the first two known cases of the disease anywhere in Latin America — those of a 40-year-old man who had returned to Argentina from Spain, and of a Spaniard who was visiting Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n
The two cases apparently were unconnected.<\/p>\n
The monkeypox virus can be transmitted to humans by infected animals. Person-to-person transmission is possible but rare.<\/p>\n
Monkeypox is related to smallpox but is much less severe. Initial symptoms include a high fever, swollen lymph nodes and a chickenpox-like rash.<\/p>\n
There is no specific treatment but vaccination against smallpox has been found to be about 85 percent effective in preventing monkeypox.<\/p>\n
Monkeypox was first detected in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1970 and is considered endemic in around a dozen African countries.<\/p>\n
Its appearance in non-endemic countries has worried experts, although those cases reported so far have been mostly mild and there have been no deaths.<\/p>\n
There have been at least a half-dozen confirmed or suspected cases in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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