According to the State Ministry of Health, the person who died is a 32 -year -old man who lived in Guadalajara and was a HIV patient.
“Hence the possibility that it would have been rather due to complications of HIV. It had an evolution of approximately 15 days with probable complications of pneumonia that could have been related to the monkey’s smallpox itself or by some other pathogen that usually causes coinfection with the HIV virus,” he said
According to the last epidemiological bulletin of the Federal Ministry of Health, 189 Mpox infections in the country were reported until May 17.
What is Mpox?
Known as monkey’s smallpox, MPOX is a viral disease that spreads from the animal to human, but is also transmitted by narrow physical contact with a person infected with the virus.
There are two genetically differentiated strains from the MPOX virus, according to WHO: the first is that of the Congo or Central Africa basin and the second is that of Western Africa.
Symptoms
Some common symptoms are the following:
• Eruptions
• Fever
• Sore throat
• Headache
• Muscle pain
• Back pain
• Lack of energy
• Inflamed lymph nodes
How is the MPOX virus spread?
According to WHO, the virus can be infected with:
- Inhale the virus for a long time.
- Direct contact with a rash, crusts or body fluids.
- Intimate physical contact.
- Near contact, skin with skin, with someone carrier of the virus.
- In pregnancy (the infected person can be transmitted to the baby).
- Through articles used by a bearer person.
