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Updated: July 30, 2022

Spain, Brazil Report First Monkeypox Deaths

By Quadri Adejumo
July 30, 2022
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Spain and Brazil have reported one death each from monkeypox on Saturday.

According to the health ministry’s emergency and alert coordination centre, Spain is one of the world’s worst-hit countries, with 4,298 cases of the virus.

The centre said in a report; “Of the 3,750 monkeypox patients with available information, 120 cases were hospitalised (3.2 percent) and one case has died."

In Brazil, the health ministry said the patient who died also suffered from lymphoma and a weakened immune system.

He had been admitted to hospital in the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte and died from septic shock after being taken to the intensive care unit.

Brazil’s health ministry has recorded close to 1,000 monkeypox cases, mostly in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states, which are also in the country’s southeast.

Along with the United States and Canada, it is one of the countries that has been most affected by monkeypox in the Americas.