To date, a group of specialists in infectology studies, in total, two deaths “to determine if there is a cause attributable to monkeypox virus infection,” justified the Ssa.
Confirmed infections are registered in 30 states of the country, and the states with the most cases are Mexico City, with 606; Jalisco, with 156; State of Mexico, with 79; Yucatan, with 59, and Quintana Roo, with 28 cases.
The Weekly Technical Report on Monkeypox Epidemiological Surveillance details that a total of 2,188 people with suspected this disease have been identified in the country, of which 1,051 are confirmed, 351 under study, and 786 ruled out by laboratory tests.
Of the total confirmed cases, 98% correspond to men and 2% to women. In addition, 47.7% of infected people are between 30 and 39 years old, and 11 cases are under 20 years old.
As of September 7, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported 54,709 confirmed cases of monkeypox in 102 countries, as well as 18 deaths.