He Ministry of Health confirmed this Monday that the number of cases of Monkeypox cases rise to 22 in Argentina. In addition, they reported that There are 96 suspects reported.
The report published in the Epidemiological Bulletin covered weeks 1 to 34 and indicated that, after the alert of week 33, 42 suspected infections were recorded in the following days, which allowed the detection of 9 of the 22 confirmed cases so far in 2024. He 82% of infections were confirmed in the last 4 weeks.
In turn, the report indicated that the awareness of the system is verified in the decrease of concomitant diseases (that coexist or occur with another) to the increase of cases studied, which went from 50% in weeks 32-33 to 21% in week 34.
Seven of the reported infections were sent to the Malbrán Institute have already been evaluated for clade identification and all belong to clade II.
The population most affected by this variant are the men who have sex with other men. In addition, the Ministry of Health stressed that the main risk factor is a history of sexual intercourse with new, multiple and occasional partners.
Since August 14, when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox or mpox as an international health emergencythis viral disease has become the center of interest of the population worldwide.
How is the situation regarding dengue, Oropouche fever and hantavirus?
On the other hand, the Epidemiological Bulletin reported on the viral circulation of dengue: The spread was interrupted in all provinces of the country, except for Chaco (San Fernando and Mayor Luis Fontana) and Formosa (Pilcomayo, Capital, and isolated cases in Patiño and Pilagás). In turn, no infections of Oropouche fever were recorded.
Regarding the hantavirus, During 2024 up to week 32, 31 confirmed cases were reported (all of them laboratory-confirmed).
For the period, There were 8 deaths, 3 belonging to the NOA region, 3 to the South region and 2 in the Central region.
Source: Ambito
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