Cases of monkeypox have spread throughout Spain and Europe. In Spain have detected more than 50 cases and the World Health Organization (WHO) indicates that there are more than 130 cases, a third of them in Spain.
One of the doubts lies in the vaccine. Will it have to vaccinate the population contra monkey pox how did you do with the coronavirus? In Spain and in the rest of the world vaccination was stopped after 1980since smallpox was then eradicated thanks to vaccines and it was a virus that no longer circulated.
For now, the Government rules out smallpox vaccination for those under 40 who are not previously vaccinated, as announced by the minister spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez.
“At the moment we are not in that phase. The Minister of Health has been giving an account of the situation of monkeypox with absolute speed, the alert mechanisms have been activated,” said the spokeswoman for the Executive.
He added that as a consequence of the health crisis derived from the covid-19 pandemic, “All the warning mechanisms have been fine-tuned and, therefore, what is verified with these cases is that they are effectively working and we have information on cases in real time”.
change the trend
The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, has assured that in Spain they are already detecting more negative cases than positive of monkeypox and expects the trend to continue. “More negative cases than positive ones are beginning to emerge,” she assured.
Of the 51 cases currently confirmed in Spain, 20 have been detected by sequencing and the rest by PCR. In addition, 35 have tested negative and two cases are pending repeat testing.
Madrid is the community with the most infections of the virus Monkeypox with 47 positives and demand the Government of Pedro Sánchez speed in the management of the health alert.
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