They try to silence it but scientists say they are related. In Italy there is a person affected by monkeypox from the south of Gran Canaria and in Las Palmas there is another hospitalized patient. WHO doctors say all the cases involve men, most of them young, officials said Wednesday. They have skin lesions and were reported to be in stable condition. Authorities did not say whether the men had a history of travel to Africa or any links to recent cases in Gran Canaria or elsewhere. The associative entity that organizes Gay Pride of Maspalomas, Freedom, was offering attendance figures and even estimated that 300.000 people would have participated in the event this May. The FEHT reduced the figure to 40.000 troops.
British health authorities said Wednesday that the identified cases of monkeypox, one in London and another in southeast England, had no known links to other previously confirmed patients, suggesting there may be multiple chains of smallpox transmission. of the ape that are already occurring in the country. Monkeypox has not previously been documented to be spread through sex, but it can be transmitted through close contact with infected people, their clothing, or bedding. Earlier this week, the UK health agency reported four cases of monkeypox which they said had spread among gay and bisexual men. The agency said the risk to the general population “remains low.”
Dr Ibrahim Soce Fall, deputy director-general of emergency response at the World Health Organisation, said there was a need to investigate the spread of monkeypox in the UK to understand how the disease was transmitted between men who have sex. with other men. Fall said health officials still need a better understanding of how monkeypox spreads in general, even in countries where it is endemic.
The virus has generally spread to people through infected animals such as rodents, although human-to-human transmission is known to occur. Health authorities in the Madrid region said late Wednesday they were evaluating 23 possible cases of monkeypox. They noted that all the suspected cases are young men and that most of them had sexual relations with other men. The disease belongs to a family of viruses that includes smallpox. Most people recover from monkeypox within weeks, but the WHO said the disease is fatal for one in ten people.
Some British experts said it was soon concluded that monkeypox had been spread through sexual contact, although the outbreak there suggested that possibility. “The recent cases suggest a potentially novel means of spread,” said Neil Mabbott, a disease expert at the University of Edinburgh, adding that related viruses were known to spread through sex. Keith Neal, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Nottingham, said transmission might not have occurred through sexual activity, but only “close contact associated with sexual intercourse.” Monkeypox usually causes fever, chills, rash, and lesions on the face or genitals that resemble those caused by smallpox. A vaccine developed against smallpox has been approved for monkeypox, and several antivirals also appear to be effective.