The US Department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the link and said the person had a severely weakened immune system and had been hospitalized. No further information will be made public, the ministry said in a statement. Press release.
“Severely immunocompromised individuals who suspect they have monkeypox are encouraged to seek immediate medical attention and remain under the care of a physician during their illness,” the news release read.
Dr. William Schaffner, a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told CNN in an email that “the person’s weakened immune system was unable to control the virus once it entered his. body, the virus has multiplied out of control and is likely to spread to multiple organ systems, causing them to malfunction. “
Monkeypox deaths are extremely rare and often affect children, pregnant women, and people with weakened immune systems, such as HIV. A person from Harris County, Texas who had monkeypox died last month, but the virus’s role in that death has not been confirmed.
According to data from the CDC, nearly 22,000 probable or confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported in the United States this year. California has the largest number of cases: 4,300.
Globally in this outbreak, there have been nearly 58,000 confirmed cases and 18 deaths, according to CDC data, which does not yet include deaths in the United States.
Trends in monkeypox cases appear to stabilize, health officials say, but that shouldn’t lead to complacency.
“We continue to see a downward trend in Europe,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last week. “Although reported cases in the Americas have declined in the past week, it is more difficult to draw firm conclusions about the outbreak in this region. Some countries in the Americas continue to report an increasing number of cases and in some it is likely that insufficient reporting is available to cause of stigma and discrimination or lack of information for those who need it most.
“A downtrend can be the most dangerous time if it opens the door to complacency,” he warned.
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