XINHUA The Mexican Public Health Secretariat (SSA) has confirmed at least 60 cases of monkeypox. Speaking during the daily morning press conference of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, July 26, SSA Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo Lopez-Gatell said that, to date, there have been no fatalities from monkeypox in Mexico. “Only about five or
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO A 48-year-old tourist from Dallas, Texas, who was visiting the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, was confirmed on Tuesday, June 7, to have contracted monkeypox. The man, who presented at a Puerto Vallarta hospital with pustule-like lesions on May 30, allegedly fled the hospital early Friday, June 3, after doctors informed him that he could
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The first confirmed case of monkeypox in Mexico was diagnosed on Saturday, May 28, Mexican Undersecretary of Public Health Hugo López-Gatel reported. An extremely rare disease, monkeypox is a much less severe cousin of smallpox, and has recently begun spreading beyond Africa around the globe. So far, more than 250 cases have been reported
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