The The community of Madrid recorded the first death for monkeypox. This is the third death which has been registered in Spain since the appearance of the first official case.
The deceased would be a patient with a concomitant infection with monkeypox that he would die of other causes, according to the Ministry of Health. In this way, death from viruses is confirmed.
With the latter, there are three people who lost their lives due to monkeypox in Spain after of the registered last July in Valencian Community and Andalusia.
The two deceased are young men who died of infection-associated encephalitis, in the first case. In the second it was due to “meningoencephalitis or other pathology”.
Since the alarm went off, the Community of Madrid has so far recorded 2,463 cases of monkeypox or monkeypox. The number of vaccinated people is 6,546, 12 more than last Friday.
Of the total, 6,248 doses were pre-exposure, four more than Thursday, and 310 post-exposure, eight more than the same day. Similarly, another 17 cases of virus infection have been excluded in the past 24 hours. Therefore, the final count from the start of the alert reaches 1,182.
In Spain, a total of 7,038 confirmed cases of Monkepox have been reported. This is indicated by the data of the National Epidemiological Surveillance Network (RENAVE).
Vaccines against monkeypox
The Public Health Commission has approved the changes to the vaccination strategy against the virus, according to the new indication of the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Therefore, in people over 18 years an intradermal dose of 0.1 ml will be administered except in pregnant and immunosuppressed women. In these cases, a dose of 0.5 ml will be administered through the skin.
The full vaccine schedule consists of two separate 28-day injections. In the vaccine package insert, Imvanex it does not provide for childhood vaccination, although informed consent is recommended after a benefit and risk assessment has been carried out.
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