The Ministry of Health reported this Sunday a case with “symptoms compatible with monkeypox”, of a Buenos Aires resident who made the consultation in the City of Buenos Aires, whose samples are being analyzed by the Malbrán Institute.
“A resident of the province of Buenos Aires consulted this Sunday in a health effector in the City of Buenos Aires with symptoms compatible with monkeypox because he has pustules in different parts of the body and fever”says the Health statement.
“The patient, who is in good general condition, isolated, and receiving symptomatic treatment, has a history of travel to Spain, the country where he was from April 28 to May 16, 2022”he added.
“To carry out the follow-up and investigation, samples were taken for etiological diagnosis, which are being analyzed at the INEI-ANLIS Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán National Reference Laboratory,” the statement said.
According to Health, while the results are awaited, “a working group was formed with the province of Buenos Aires and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, to coordinate clinical, diagnostic and epidemiological actions, in order to confirm or rule out the case, give adequate clinical care and implement all measures to control the focus to avoid possible transmission”.
The portfolio headed by Minister Carla Vizzotti explained that “Since the international notification of the first cases of this disease in non-endemic countries, a work team was formed in the Ministry of Health of the Nation with the objective of initiating surveillance of the new event and generating specific recommendations for the teams. of health and the population.
As of Saturday, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports 28 laboratory-confirmed cases and 12 suspected cases of monkeypox in 12 non-endemic countries (Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States).
In these cases, a history or link with endemic areas has not yet been confirmed.
“The extent of community transmission is still unclear at this stage and therefore there is potential to identify more cases. However it is worth mentioning that monkeypox virus is considered to have moderate human-to-human transmissibility,” the official statement abounded.
