The Community of Madrid has urged this Monday the Ministry of Health to approve “urgently” the protocol that the General Directorate of Public Health of Madrid has prepared and that it sent last Thursday to the Ministry for the use of authorized vaccines against the monkey pox.
These vials are approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and are useful in controlling the transmission of monkeypox infection if administered to close contacts. However, in Spain there is no stock of these vaccines and their purchase is required through the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products, they have indicated from the Madrid Ministry of Health.
The number of suspected cases of monkeypox in Galicia has increased to three, after the Ministry of Health has detected two new possible cases of the disease, which have been sent to the Carlos III Health Institute (Madrid) for analysis. All of them, all three, are now awaiting a definitive diagnosis.
According to the Xunta in a statement, pending the final results, these three people with monkeypox are stable.
A specific vaccine against monkeypox has not yet been developed, but data from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that
the original smallpox vaccine is 85% effective against the simian variantreports Alba Fernandez in
The vanguard.
For this reason, it is unknown whether doses specially designed to combat monkeypox will be created or those that were left in disuse years ago due to the eradication of traditional smallpox will be used.
In fact, the lack of manufacturing has caused the population in Africa to lose immunity against monkeypox and the disease reproduces more easily.
The current outbreak of monkeypox is the first in
several places at the same time and in which those infected are not linked to trips to Africa. This was recognized today by experts from the World Health Organization (WHO).
“There have been cases in the last five years in people who came from Africa, but it is the first time that we have registered them in different countries at the same time,” said the WHO smallpox expert Rosamund Lewis in a question and answer session. about the disease.
The Community of Madrid already registers 36 positive cases of monkeypox, eight negative PCR and 40 suspected cases, which are pending the results of laboratory tests, as reported by the Ministry of Health in the latest update on Monday.
The Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, had already stated that the laboratory that confirms the cases had confirmed this morning the results of 30 patients and the number of suspicions increased to 45.
The main thing people who have been infected with monkeypox will feel is
fever, headache, chills, muscle pain, and tirednesssymptoms very similar to those of the eradicated original smallpox.
Health experts indicate that from the time the disease is transmitted until the first manifestations of being infected appear, it can take between 6 and 13 days, although it can take up to 21.
It has a variable mortality of less than 10%, according to the WHO, but among children and pregnant women, monkeypox can be somewhat more dangerous, being able to transmit the disease to the fetus.
The monkeypox outbreak is reaching more and more countries, and that is why the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare of Paraguay has activated an epidemiological alert for the virus.
The General Directorate of Health Surveillance made public some laboratory measures, recommendations to medical personnel and citizens to deal with the more than 90 infected in non-endemic countries.
The ECDC expressed its concern on Wednesday about the increase in cases and expressed its fear that monkeypox could become an endemic disease in Europe. “If transmission from person to animal occurs and the virus spreads in an animal population , there is a risk that the disease will become endemic in Europe,” he explained in a statement. To avoid this, they call for closer collaboration between human and veterinary public health authorities to “control exposed pets and prevent the disease from being transmitted to wildlife.”
This Tuesday a meeting of the Public Health Commission will take place, which will put on the table the evolution of the incidence of monkeypox in Spain.
During the meeting, which will be held from 5:00 p.m., Public Health will study some containment measures for the transmission of the virus and will analyze the numbers of Spain, the non-African country with the most positive cases.
Worldwide, monkeypox is about to reach the first 100 positive cases in non-endemic countries, while Spain brings together a third of those positives in the country.
These positives should be isolated in quarantine and their close contacts should minimize social interaction to prevent further spread of the virus.
Hello! Welcome and welcome to a new live coverage of all the information on monkeypox, which continues to advance little by little in our country with a trickle of cases that is still quite low.
Spain has registered at least 36 confirmed cases of monkeypox, while another 40 cases remain under investigation.
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