Last week, the WHO recommended coordinated action to protect vulnerable groups of citizens and stop the spread of the disease.
A second patient with confirmed monkeypox has died in Spain. About this on Saturday, July 30, The Guardian wrote.
The Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES) said that the victims were both young men. The cause of death of the second patient was encephalitis caused by infection.
The first patient with confirmed monkeypox in Spain died on 29 July.
According to the National Epidemiological Surveillance Network (RENAVE), 4,298 confirmed cases have been identified in Spain.
The monkeypox virus is similar to the blackpox virus, but is less contagious and deadly. The disease it causes is usually milder, similar to chickenpox, and symptoms go away on their own after a few weeks.
According to the first symptoms, monkeypox is quite difficult to recognize – it is fever, headache, back pain.
There is a vaccine against the disease, which is recommended to be offered to the most susceptible categories of the population – mainly homosexual and bisexual men, as well as specialized medical workers.
New York Governor Kathy Hokul declared a state of emergency due to the monkeypox outbreak. One in four cases of infection in the United States occurs in New York.
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