Spain has reported its first monkeypox related death. The death was reported on Friday by Spanish media, which said this was a first for the European nation.
The Spanish health ministry said that so far 120 people had been admitted to the hospital with monkeypox and one had died. It gave no further details regarding the death, but Spain’s state news agency Efe and other media outlets said it was the country’s first monkeypox death.
The ministry also said Spain had 4,298 people infected with the virus. Of that, some 3,500 cases were of men who had had sex with other men while 64 were women. Experts suspect that monkeypox outbreaks in Europe and North America were sparked by sex at two raves in Belgium and Spain.
The current outbreak is by far the biggest involving the virus and it has been designated as a global health emergency by the World Health Organisation.
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