Minister Karina Rando confirmed that epidemiological monitoring of Mpox is ongoing in Uruguay.
He Ministry of Public Health (MSP) turned on “all the alerts” due to the increase in cases of the monkeypox (Mpox) globally, after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the latest outbreak a “global health emergency.”
Last Thursday at a press conference, the Minister Karina Rando confirmed that the epidemiological monitoring of Mpox is “permanent” in the Uruguay and that there have been no confirmed cases in recent days despite the international trend.
“At the level of our country we are on all alerts, the Public Health laboratory has its sentinel centers,” Rando stressed and added: “We have not detected cases in Uruguay new in recent times, despite the WHO declaration.”
“Our job is to control all those people who have been exposed to possible infections, and of course the personnel who are in (Democratic Republic of the) Congo They will have very particular medical monitoring, and also, if they have any symptoms, the index of suspicion is very high if they come from areas where there are outbreaks,” explained the member of Open Town Hall (AC).
Monkey virus kills 548 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the United States peacekeeping mission is located. Uruguayan Blue HelmetsThe monkey virus has already killed some 548 people since the beginning of the year.
He Minister of Public Health, Hygiene and Prevention of the DRC, Samuel-Roger Kambaannounced through a video that the country also registered some 15,664 potential cases of Mpox in recent times.
Kamba also noted that cases of monkeypox have been reported in all 26 provinces of the country, where it was first discovered in humans in 1970, and which has more than 100 million inhabitants spread over more than 2.3 million square kilometers.
Source: Ambito
