Mexico confirms 1st monkeypox case

Health officials in Mexico confirmed Saturday the country’s first known case of monkeypox, in a 50-year-old US resident being treated in Mexico City.

“Fortunately, he is stable and in preventive isolation,” Lopez-Gatell said. “We hope he will recover without complications.”On Friday, health authorities in Argentina confirmed the first two known cases of the disease anywhere in Latin America—those of a 40-year-old man who had returned to Argentina from Spain, and of a Spaniard who was visiting Buenos Aires.

The monkeypox virus can be transmitted to humans by infected animals. Person-to-person transmission is possible but rare. There is no specific treatment but vaccination against smallpox has been found to be about 85 percent effective in preventing monkeypox.

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