Authorities detect a possible case of monkeypox in Florida

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The health authorities of Florida (USA)detected a suspected case of monkeypox in Broward County, in the south of this state, as announced this Sunday. 

According to the Florida Department of Health, this is a man who has been isolated and his case is being investigated jointly with the government Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). its acronym in English). 

The man made recently an international trip, where he allegedly acquired the virus, and for the moment no other case of this virus has been identified in the state. 

The authorities are proceeding to inform all the people who have could have been exposed, although they recalled that the risk of contagion from this disease is “relatively low”. 

This finding comes after US authorities detected the first case of monkeypox in the country, where a health alert was issued on Friday.  

The virus was discovered in an adult male resident in the state of Massachusetts (northeast of the country) and who recently traveled to Canada. 

The symptoms of monkeypox are similar to those of the now eradicated smallpox, although somewhat milder – fever, headache, muscular, back pain, chills and exhaustion – and there is often swollen glands and a skin rash, which starts on the face and spreads to other parts of the body, mainly hands and feet . 

The states of Texas and Maryland each reported one case in 2021 with patients who had recently traveled to Nigeria.   

Since last May, cases of monkeypox have been discovered in several countries where this virus had not previously been detected.