The Health Secretary at the federal level confirmed that there is 10 deaths linked to the monkey pox In our country.
It’s a statement released this Tuesday, the agency explained that the deaths related to monkey smallpox correspond to nine men and one woman.
10 deaths were identified: nine men and one woman. These were people who during medical care presented lesions compatible with monkeypox and who, following the laboratory study, were confirmed,” the document reads.
According to Federal Health, four of the deaths are directly related to monkeypox virus infection, two deaths are not due to this direct cause, and four are being analyzed by a group of experts in infectious disease and epidemiology to define whether there is a causal association between the death and infection by the HIV virus monkeypox.
In total, there are 3,145 infections since the first record in Mexican territory for said disease.
The document, available at viruela.salud.gob.mx details that from the registration of the first case and until November 14, 5,243 people who meet the operational definition of probable case were identified; of them, three thousand 145 were confirmed402 are under study, 1,696 were discarded through laboratory tests and four deaths.
The Institute of Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference (InDRE) reported that the positive cases are distributed in 32 states: Mexico City, 1,833 infections; Jalisco, 355; State of Mexico, 320; Yucatan, 111; Quintana Roo, 111; Tabasco, 44; Puebla, 45; Nuevo Leon, 34; Chiapas, 32; Lower California, 25; Veracruz, 27; Queretaro, 23; Morelos, 21; Guanajuato, 17; and Sinaloa, 17.
Also, Hidalgo, 16; Chihuahua, 15; Coahuila, 12; Tamaulipas, 11; Nayarit, 10; Guerrero, nine; Oaxaca, eight; Aguascalientes, nine; Campeche, seven; Michoacan, seven; Tlaxcala, seven; Sound, five; Colima, four; Zacatecas, three; San Luis Potosi, five; Baja California Sur, one and Durango, one.
Regarding the distribution by sex assigned at birth, the predominance is in men, with 97.5 percent; the age group from 30 to 34 years is the most prevalent, presenting an incidence rate of 8.1 per 100,000 inhabitants; that is, 828 of the three thousand 145 confirmed cases.
Regarding the gender of the confirmed cases that provide information, 96.5 percent correspond to male and 2.6 percent female; 0.2 percent is non-binary; 0.04 percent, bigender; 0.1 percent, transgender; and 0.4 percent corresponds to another group.
The most common symptoms reported are rash in all cases, which is identified with a more or less extensive reddish skin rash; fever; headaches, muscle and joint pain; Swelling of the lymph nodes; general weakness or fatigue that makes it difficult or impossible to perform tasks that you normally perform easily; chills and others.
The most frequent comorbidity is the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), in 1,845 of the confirmed cases of monkeypox; that is, 58.7 percent. They are followed by syphilis, hepatitis C and diabetes mellitus, among others.
With information from López-Dóriga Digital