The Ministry of Health confirmed a new case of monkey pox in the country and revealed that this contagion is not related to the first. This is a person who lives in Spain and who was visiting the province of Buenos Aires.
Worldwide, the WHO (World Health Organization) records more than 200 cases of the monkey pox and hundreds of other suspects. The illness It has the authorities in suspense who ask the population to be alert to the risks and symptoms.
The Ministry of Health explained that the second patient in the country is isolated and receiving treatment for his symptoms. Their close contacts are under strict clinical and epidemiological monitoring, although the presence of the disease has not been detected in any of them. monkey pox.
The patient has ulcerative lesions, without other symptoms and arrived in the territory on May 25, on Thursday he went to the doctor for the skin lesions and after several tests it was confirmed that he was positive by suffering. “Infection with poxviruses belonging to the Eurasian, African group of the Orthopox genus was confirmed,” says the entity’s report.
Argentina was the first in Latin America where the presence of the disease was officially confirmed which has led several European countries to order a 21-day quarantine for those infected and their close contacts.
The first case of monkeypox
The first case of monkey pox in the country was confirmed last Sunday, in a person who was in Spain between April 28 and May 16. When he presented the first symptoms he immediately isolated himself to receive medical treatment.
The disease can cause fever, head and body aches, and skin rashes that are evident from the second week of contagion. It is not fatal and its contagiousness depends on the degree of closeness with the patient.
