Cuba confirmed this Saturday the third case of monkeypox in a 27-year-old woman who is hospitalized, isolated and under medical follow-up, reported this Saturday the Ministry of Public Health on their official channels.
The note from the entity specifies that the patient resides in the central province of Cienfuegos and is not related to the other two cases confirmed in August, which were a 60-year-old Cuban resident in the United States and a 50-year-old Italian touristthe latter deceased days after testing positive for the disease.
Regarding the third case registered this Saturday, the island’s health authorities indicated that it was the contact of a Cuban citizen residing in the United States who entered Cuba on September 3 and returned on the 13th of the same month.
? We inform our population that yesterday, 9/23, the third case of Simic Pox diagnosed in the national territory ?? was confirmed, which is unrelated to previous cases.
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— Cuban Ministry of Public Health (@MINSAPCuba) September 24, 2022
Said citizen had suspicious signs of the disease, while the young woman diagnosed began with symptoms on September 15, went to the doctor a week later and the next day the infection was confirmed.
“The established focus control actions and epidemiological surveillance are carried out,” said the MINSAP in the information published on its website.
“In relation to the contacts of the previously notified cases, they are already discharged, with no evidence of transmission of the disease in the focus controls carried out,” added the source.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared this disease – also called monkeypox – 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 other people while they have symptoms and the virus is transmitted through body fluids (pus or blood from skin lesions), scabs and objects used by sick people.
