With 3,151 confirmed cases, Spain has the country with the highest number of monkeypox infections in the world, according to statistics the World Health Organization (WHO) began updating daily after declaring an international emergency for the disease on July 23.
The United States (2,582 cases), Germany (2,352), the United Kingdom (2,208), France (1,567 cases) and the Netherlands (712) are in the rankings published this Tuesday. According to the World Health Organization, the total number of confirmed cases in the world is 16,761, five times more than a month ago.
The country with the highest number of cases in Latin America is Brazil (592 confirmed), followed by Peru (143), Mexico (54), Chile (20) and Argentina (18).
Only five deaths reported from the disease (three in Nigeria and two in the Central African Republic) were in Africa, where monkeypox has been endemic in western and central regions for decades.
The countries where the most cases were reported last week were the USA (772), France (655), Germany (319) and Spain (316).
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared an international emergency, citing rapid contagion and a large number of affected countries (more than 70), despite a committee of 15 experts from the organization overwhelmingly opposed to WHO.
As a result, three international health emergencies are in place: the other two are covid, which has been declared since the end of January 2020, and polio, which has been in effect since 2017 due to serious outbreaks in countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. .
source: Noticias
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