(EFE).- Cuba reported this Saturday its fourth infection with monkeypox, a health worker who had direct contact with the third case.
The Ministry of Public Health reported that the 26-year-old Cuban citizen from the province of Cienfuegos (center) is evolving “favorably and without complications.” He stressed that the patient “was in strict isolation for being direct contact, so no new contacts are declared.”
The fourth infected with monkeypox in Cuba had his first skin lesions on September 30 and that same day samples were taken, which the National Reference Laboratory of the Pedro Kouri Institute (IPK) confirmed as positive this Saturday.
The Ministry of Health added that the rest of the isolated contacts for the third case remain asymptomatic on the eighth day of surveillance.
The third case was confirmed last Saturday. It was a 27-year-old woman from Cienfuegos who had had contact with a Cuban resident in the US who had suspicious symptoms of the disease.
The disease is caused by a virus and can be transmitted from animals to humans or by direct and intense contact with people who have the symptoms
The two previous cases were another 60-year-old Cuban resident in the US and a 50-year-old Italian tourist, who died days after testing positive for the disease in Cuba.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared this disease 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 through direct and intense contact with people who have symptoms.
The WHO reports that symptoms include fever, headache and 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.
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