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Cantabria finds first case of monkeypox after WHO warning, but not of the new variety


Santander/In the last few hours, Cantabria has found the first case of smallpox in a young man who went to the emergency room referred to by his health center last Friday with “suggestive” lesions and is in “good condition”, although he is in hospital. for “treatment cases”, in hospital isolation.


According to laboratory tests, the patient is suffering from the disease, although the variant is in West Africa, which is not the one that caused the current warning ordered by the Health Organization of the World (WHO), said the head of Public Health, Luis Viloria, this Monday in an audio sent to the media.


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As described, the variant found in this patient with a transplant is “similar” to the current warning, but with a “much lower” severity.


This variant has been circulating in Spain since 2022, as well as in other areas of Europe, and in the past year it had produced around 200 cases.

2024-08-19 11:48:02
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