Monkey pox: first demise formally recorded in the US

A primary. Whereas the US now has 22,000 sufferers affected by monkeypox, the nation’s well being authorities confirmed on Monday, September 12 the primary official demise of a affected person due to this virus.

This affected person, severely immunocompromised, stated the general public well being division, had been hospitalized for a number of days. Dr. William Schaffner, a professor within the division of infectious ailments at Vanderbilt College Medical Heart, instructed CNN “the affected person’s weakened immune system couldn’t management the virus as soon as it entered his physique.” The American well being authorities didn’t present extra particulars on the profile of the deceased.

WHO nonetheless on the alert

For some native media, this demise is listed because the second to have been recorded in the US. As a result of on the finish of August in Texas, one other affected person, additionally very fragile, had misplaced his life after catching monkeypox. However the hyperlink between the viral an infection and the demise of the latter had not been formally confirmed by the well being authorities.

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On the European continent, three deaths of sufferers with monkeypox have been recorded so far: two in Spain and one in Belgium.

Whereas the pandemic appears to have stalled a little bit in latest weeks, the WHO stays very vigilant concerning the circulation of the virus, after having triggered a worldwide alert on the finish of July. Extra typically, the monkeypox mortality charge stays low, and sufferers who contract the illness typically recuperate very nicely after therapy.