It was reported that the number of cases of monkeypox virus in Italy increased to 4.
According to the news of the Italian ANSA agency, the monkeypox virus was detected in a 32-year-old person in the city of Arezzo in the Tuscany Region. It was stated that the person in question had recently returned from a holiday in Spain’s Canary Islands.
In addition to the 3 cases in the Lazio Region, including the capital Rome, the number of monkeypox cases in the country reached 4 with the last case in Tuscany.
Meanwhile, it has been recorded that 15 people who were in contact with the monkeypox case in the Lazio Region are also in isolation.
The first monkeypox case in Italy was detected in a person who came from the Canary Islands on 19 May.
According to the information shared by the European Union’s European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the monkeypox virus was detected in 85 people in 8 European Union member countries on May 15-23.
Monkeypox Virus
Monkeypox, known as one of the rare diseases caused by an endemic virus, is divided into two Congo and West African species.
It is known that the Congo strain of the virus has a mortality risk of up to 10 percent, while the West African strain has a 1 percent mortality rate in one of every 2 cases.
The virus, which is usually transmitted from animal to human and rarely from person to person, can cause high fever and itchy blisters on the body.