The second case detected in Cuba with the monkey poxa Cuban resident in the United States, is evolving favorably, reported this Friday the “Pedro Kourí” Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK) in Havana.
“The patient maintains a favorable evolution” on the thirteenth day of being diagnosed, according to IPK specialists on Cuban television. A report of Eph points out that the patient is a 60-year-old Cuban.
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He arrived in the country on August 26 from Miami (USA) and “did not declare health problems” during the control carried out at the international airport in Havana, as explained by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) when reporting the case. From that day until the 30th, the man stayed at a relative’s house in Havana, where he began to experience various symptoms, for which he was hospitalized and isolated.
The Minsap reported that on August 31 the monkeypox infection had been confirmed in a study carried out at the IPK National Reference Laboratory.
The first patient detected in Cuba with this disease arrived on the island on August 15 and died from this cause six days later.
Health authorities confirmed that only these two cases have been detected in the country, although they point out that they maintain surveillance at their borders and train their professionals on monkeypox, a highly contagious disease.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared this disease – also called simian pox – as a “global health emergency” on July 23, when more than 16,000 infections had been reported in 75 countries.
According to specialists, the disease is caused by a virus and can be transmitted from animals to humans or by direct contact with people who have symptoms. The WHO reports that symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches, low energy, swollen lymph nodes, and rashes or skin lesions.
Sick people can infect others while they have symptoms and the virus is transmitted through body fluids (pus or blood from skin lesions), scabs and objects used by the sick.
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