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Spain reports second monkeypox-linked death

It is not confirmed if the deaths were actually caused by monkeypox, with autopsies still ongoing.

LAST UPDATE | 30 Jul 2022

SPAIN HAS REPORTED its second monkeypox-related death, bringing to three the number of fatalities linked to the current outbreak outside of Africa.

Spain and Brazil both announced what they believed to be their first deaths related to the virus yesterday.

It is however unclear if monkeypox actually caused any of the three fatalities, with Spanish authorities still carrying out autopsies and Brazilian authorities saying its deceased patient suffered from other serious conditions.

More than 18,000 cases have been detected throughout the world outside of Africa since the beginning of May, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says.

Spain is one of the world’s worst-hit countries, with 4,298 people there infected with the virus, according to the Spanish health ministry.

“Among the 3,750 (monkeypox) patients … 120 have been hospitalised and two have died,” it said in a report, without specifying the date of the second death.

It said the victims were “two young men”, and that studies were under way to gather more “epidemiologic information” on both cases.

Brazil said a man with monkeypox died on Thursday in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the southeastern Minas Gerais state.

He “was receiving hospital treatment for other serious conditions”, the state health ministry said in a statement.

“It is important to underline that he had serious co-morbidities, so as not to spread panic in the population. The death rate is very low” for monkeypox, said Minas Gerais health secretary Fabio Baccheretti, who added that the patient was undergoing cancer treatment.

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.

The WHO’s European office said on Saturday that more monkeypox-related deaths can be expected.

“With the continued spread of monkeypox in Europe, we will expect to see more deaths,” Catherine Smallwood, Senior Emergency Officer at WHO Europe, said in a statement.

The goal needs to be “interrupting transmission quickly in Europe and stopping this outbreak”, she said.

‘Global health emergency’
Early signs of the disease include a high fever, swollen lymph glands and a chickenpox-like rash.

But Smallwood stressed that in most cases the disease heals itself without the need for treatment.

“The usual reasons patients might require hospital care include help in managing pain, secondary infections, and in a small number of cases the need to manage life-threatening complications such as encephalitis,” she explained.

The WHO last Saturday declared the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency.

The disease has been detected in 78 countries, with 70 percent of cases found in Europe and 25 percent in the Americas, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.

As cases surge globally, the WHO on Wednesday called on the group currently most affected by the virus – men who have sex with men – to limit their sexual partners.

Ghebreyesus told reporters that the best way to protect against infection was “to reduce the risk of exposure”.

“For men who have sex with men, this includes, for the moment, reducing your number of sexual partners, reconsidering sex with new partners, and exchanging contact details with any new partners to enable follow-up if needed,” he said.

The disease usually heals by itself after two to three weeks, sometimes taking a month.

A smallpox vaccine from Danish drug maker Bavarian Nordic, marketed under the name Jynneos in the United States and Imvanex in Europe, has also been found to protect against monkeypox.

© AFP 2022

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 6:07 PM

    Won’t be long before the anti vax lot crawl out of their rabbit holes

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 6:19 PM

    @Johnny Wilson: They’re too busy being anti immigrant these days

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    Mute Seosamh Ohuaine
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    Apr 2nd 2025, 6:53 PM

    @Johnny Wilson: Whats the big deal with measles. Sure we all got it in the 80s and were then immune for life.

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    Mute Jason Poole
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    Apr 2nd 2025, 6:54 PM

    @Anthony Curran: Comment of the year

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 7:13 PM

    @Anthony Curran: like most viruses the do tend to spread without a prevention.

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 7:16 PM

    @Seosamh Ohuaine: Wow, if we had a vaccine for your obvious lack of knowledge….can’t use the word I wanted

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    Mute Trevor Donoghue
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    Apr 2nd 2025, 7:16 PM

    @Seosamh Ohuaine: Yes, because it was much safer to get it as a child and gives you immunity, catching it as an adult is far more dangerous.

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    Mute Éamonn O'Kane
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    Apr 2nd 2025, 7:44 PM

    @Seosamh Ohuaine: it also killls and can lead to long term disability.

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    Mute Paul O'Mahoney
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    Apr 2nd 2025, 7:57 PM

    @Éamonn O’Kane: Correct,

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 8:48 PM

    @Paul O’Mahoney: apropos de rien : all good things come to an end. The world will keep spinning around. So will the galaxy. The Universe will find conciousness somewhere.
    You know that we die in the end !
    (sorry to ruin the film).
    It’s eternal life we’re looking for and indeed such a thing is possible if you’re spiritually inclined.
    In anycase ; there’s such a wide range of possibilties that I don’t understand how anyone can be an athiest.

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    Mute Pat Redmond
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    Apr 3rd 2025, 1:09 PM

    @Seosamh Ohuaine: and children born blind as a result. Special schools for the blind no longer exist thanks to the vaccination

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    Mute Frank Foley
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    Apr 2nd 2025, 7:01 PM

    The 5pm train to Sligo from Dublin is always very busy ,not enough carriages and it’s impossible to get a seat until you get to Mullingar.

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    Mute Paul O'Mahoney
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    Apr 2nd 2025, 8:03 PM

    And what about the train from Sligo to Dublin?

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    Mute AphroBeat
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    Apr 2nd 2025, 6:39 PM

    Time to lockdown again, zero measles! Let’s flatten the curve

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    Mute Donna Fallon
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    Apr 2nd 2025, 8:28 PM

    @AphroBeat: Everything on this forum is so negative. Let’s flatten the curve… X amounts of deaths today from (not with apparently). I for one know people who died as a result of the lockdowns and literally nothing to do with a virus.

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    Mute AphroBeat
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    Apr 2nd 2025, 9:16 PM

    @Donna Fallon: It was certainly a terrible time for many, Donna, my sincere condolences. Sadly, I knew people who took their own lives who struggled with loneliness. I, too, found it challenging being myself, but I found resilience from past traumatic experiences. Thankfully, many are vaccinated for MMR here, so it may not warrant a lockdown.

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    Apr 3rd 2025, 1:00 AM

    @AphroBeat: Thanks Man and sorry to hear you too had a tough time x I genuinely thought that you were being sarcastic in your initial comment… hope you are well now x

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 7:18 PM

    Anyone who was on the train was also possibly exposed to the flu,covid,chicken pox,vomiting bug,farts,burps,general body odour etc. etc. Welcome to life.Stay home for the rest of your life If it upsets you.
    This is not news.
    Either you’ve been vaccinated against it and you’re fine because unlike the covid injections the measles one is actually a proper vaccine that makes you immune.Or you haven’t been vaccinated so you don’t care in the first place.So again,this is not news.

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 7:59 PM

    @Johnny King: So are vaccines good or bad?

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 8:01 PM

    @Johnny King: Disability payment late again? Measles, like Covid-19, is a notifiable infectious disease under the Health Acts and MOH legislation. Both have effective clinical responses. Your comments on vaccines insults the memory of C19 bereavement. If it had been available, some who be still with us.

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 9:14 PM

    @Paul O’Mahoney: almost all of them are amazing,life savers.The covid one technically doesn’t even qualify as a vaccine.Doesn’t make you immune,doesn’t stop you spreading it,At best they say it can very slightly help your recovery chances when you get covid.I would argue that this slight help they say it gives your immune system was offset ten fold by the false sense of security people thought they had after being told they wouldn’t get covid after getting the jabs,and so went about their business falsely believing that the covid jab was like a regular,effective vaccine that makes you immune

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 9:28 PM

    @Luas Vuitton – Penneys Drag Queen: I’ve had one m.m.r. vaccine and I have never had measles as a result.I have had 3 covid injections and I’ve had covid 4 times that I’m aware of.Probably have had it ten more times than I’m unaware of since more than 95% of people that get it don’t have any symptoms whatsoever.This was proven by the mass testing that was done in China.If we had done mass testing here we would have realised this.
    So the point is I got the MMR vaccine.That PREVENTS you from getting measles,mumps and Rubella.I have had THREE Covid so called vaccines and have had covid probably between 10 and 15 times.Can you understand the difference there? One works.The other doesn’t.

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 9:25 PM

    We all got measels as kids ,how is it so dangerous all of a sudden

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 11:39 PM

    @Richie Whelan: PARENTS NOT VACCINATING THEIR KIDS! How do ye not understand this yet?!

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    Apr 3rd 2025, 2:01 PM

    @John Doe: but but..let them decide themselves!
    No damn parents anymore they are all wannabe social workers now.

    I wanna run in trafffic
    Ok honey I am empowering you to make a good choice.
    Death

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 6:59 PM

    No one is safe until everyone is safe.

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 7:52 PM

    an American?

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 10:20 PM

    Hope the EU hurries up and suspends travel of americans into europe. Keeps us all more healthy physically and mentally.

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 7:57 PM

    Great to see Iarnród Eireann improving the quality of catering on the Sligo train, finally.

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 6:44 PM

    Need to start doing some spot checks.

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    Apr 3rd 2025, 2:03 PM

    @Ian Heaton:its the mumps next
    Probably the foreigners kissing

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 6:13 PM

    Ah here..
    That’s ridiculous…

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 9:21 PM

    Punam Rane was completely right.

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    Apr 3rd 2025, 2:02 PM

    @Fergus O’Donnell: i though that was commen knowledge like!.

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    Apr 3rd 2025, 11:49 AM

    All together now
    “We had sailed seven years when the measles broke out and the ship lost its way in a fog……..

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 6:57 PM

    One, could conclude that, there is a memorandum of Understanding, between all sides, Officially!

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 6:30 PM

    One, is ready for such outcome, there should not be any issues

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 8:36 PM

    Still watching, decent game, 1 up for Home team

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 8:58 PM

    One, is watching live !

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    Still watching, live score o

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 7:07 PM

    One, is aware of kick off, original colours as agreed, ” You & me ” !

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    Apr 2nd 2025, 7:49 PM

    One, is live watching!

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