Spain and Portugal announced that they had recorded more than forty confirmed or suspected cases of monkeypox, a rare disease in Europe.
The World Health Organization said last Tuesday that it wanted to highlight, in cooperation with Britain, the monkeypox infections that have been discovered in this country since the beginning of May, especially in the gay community..
And the local health authorities in the Madrid region announced on Wednesday evening the discovery of 23 suspected cases of monkeypox, an endemic disease in West Africa..
Monkeypox is a rare disease that usually presents with fever, muscle aches, swollen lymph glands, and a rash on the hands and face..
The authorities’ statement on Twitter said, “In general, transmission (of the disease) occurs through the respiratory system, but these 23 presumed cases of infection indicate that transmission occurred through mucous membranes during sexual relations.“.
As for Portugal, there are “more than 20 suspected monkeypox cases in the Lisbon region, five of which have been confirmed,” as the health authorities in Portugal announced in a statement.