The 48-year-old man, originally from Texas, was taken care of in a hospital on the Mexican Pacific coast. He left the country by plane, while he was held in solitary confinement.
An American with monkeypox has escaped from a resort hospital in Mexico and fled the country to return to the United States, local authorities said Wednesday.
The 48-year-old man, from Texas, left Puerto Vallarta on Mexico’s Pacific coast after local medical staff told him he should be tested for monkeypox and kept in solitary confinement. the Mexican state of Jalisco’s health department said in a statement.
He had arrived at the hospital with symptoms of “cough, chills, muscle aches and rashes on his face, neck and trunk”, he said.
After fleeing it, the Texan returned to the hotel where he was staying and flew out of Puerto Vallarta on June 4, before authorities could locate him.
Trips to Berlin and Dallas
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed to Mexican authorities on Monday that the man had returned to the United States, where he took a test which confirmed he had monkeypox.
Before arriving in Puerto Vallarta on May 27, he had been to Berlin between May 12 and 16, then to Dallas, Texas. During his stay in the resort located in the state of Jalisco, he attended parties at a holiday club, the Mantamar Beach Club. Local health departments have asked everyone who attended the facility between May 27 and June 4 to monitor their health.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that more than 1,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported in various countries where it is not endemic, and that the risk of the virus taking hold there is ” real”.
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