Angel Valdes | April 17, 2023
Dr. Alfredo Molto, advisor to the Ministry of Health, referred to the cases of monkeypox in Panama where last week the first death occurred in our country.
45% of people diagnosed with monkeypox in our country also have HIV-positive status and 70% have sexually transmitted diseases, that is, it is during intimate relationships that there is close contact between an infected person and a healthy person. where contagion is produced by the secretions of the lesions, it is not really a sexually transmitted disease but it is a disease that has intimate relationships as an important component, “explained Molto
From July 2022 when the first case occurred until April 14 of this year there have been 223 cases, of which 221 have been in men and 2 in women, all the cases in men have it is because they have sex with men and in women it was because their partners were bisexual.
