The director of the prevention department of the Central Tuscany Local Health Authority confirmed 11 cases of monkeypox (Mpox) in Florence: “These are male subjects, all quite young, except for one case of a middle-aged person.” According to what has been reconstructed, seven of them had been in a nightclub in the hinterland of Florence on New Year’s Eve.
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New cases of monkeypox (or monkeypox or Mpox) have been recorded in the area of Firenze. There are exactly 11 as confirmed by Renzo Berti, director of the prevention department of the ASL Tuscany centre.
“It’s about male subjects, all quite young, except for one case of a middle-aged person. The infection was probably contracted with one promiscuous sexuality. There have been some parties which may have determined the transmission”, specified Berti, reassuring that this pathology “very rarely occurs serious consequences, resolves spontaneously in about four weeks. Only rare cases progress to a more serious condition. Why there is no cause for alarm“.
The infection, Berti further recalled, is transmitted “through close contact, even more so if it is of a sexual nature, between infected people. Transmission can also occur in the case of contact mediated by clothing, but mainly occurs with physical contact”. According to some rumors circulating in the press this morning, it seems that all the cases emerged starting from the second half of January. According to what has been reconstructed , seven of these people, who came from multiple provinces in the region, had been in one nightclub in the hinterland of Florence a New Year’s.
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As he anticipated Republic of Florenceeverything would have started from the reporting of a family doctor from Mugellowhich would have recognized the signs of the disease in one of its patients and from there the mapping of infections was carried out.
According to the latest joint report of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organization, were recorded in Europe in the 4 weeks between mid-December and mid-January 138 cases of infection.
Leading the ranking is La Spain with 68 cases, they follow Germania (21) e Italia (17). Since the start of the epidemic in spring 2022, 26,703 cases of monkeypox have been diagnosed in Europe, the report summarizes. There were 855 hospitalizations, 8 in intensive care and 7 deaths. 98% of cases were recorded in males, most of them aged between 31 and 40. Almost nine months ago, the WHO declared the end of the global health emergency, which began in July 2022.