The Ministry of Health confirmed in the last hours, the second death for monkeypox in Argentina, of a person who presented risk factors.
This is how he spread it telamfrom National Epidemiological Bulletin (BEN), which reported that the number of cases amounts to a total of 1,025 for this disease. According to these figures, 98.14% of the cases correspond to persons of the legal male sex (19 correspond to the legal female sex, 4 transgender and 15 cis gender).
Of these cases, 677 correspond to the city of Buenos Aires, 274 are inhabitants of different Buenos Aires districts, 23 from Córdoba, 17 from Santa Fe, 9 from Tierra del Fuego, 5 from Río Negro, 4 in Mendoza, 4 in Santa Cruz, 3 in Neuquén, 2 in Chubut, 2 in Tucumán, 1 in Chaco, 1 in Corrientes, 1 in Jujuy, 1 in Salta and 1 in San Juan.
On November 29, the first death due to the monkeypox (previously known as monkeypox or monkeypox in English, a term that due to its racist content was modified by the World Health Organization -WHO- to mpox in all languages): of a 44-year-old man who had been diagnosed with HIV without treatment and was hospitalized in intensive care in the city of Buenos Aires (CABA).
Confirm the second death from monkeypox in Argentina | Photo: Illustrative Image
According to specialists, this disease can be characterized based on the presence of rashes (skin rashes) vesicular in different locations including genitals, perianal, hands, torso and face, added to fever and lymphadenopathy.
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According to what was reported by the WHO, 86.1% of the cases are concentrated in 9 countries: the United States, Brazil, France, Colombia, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Chile and the Netherlands.
While 96.9% of the cases with available data are male, the median age is 34 years and 1% of the cases with age data are between 0 and 17 years, of which 0.3% are between 0 and 4 years old.
