After discovering the viral illness in a visitor who had just arrived from Italy this week, Cuba’s Public Health ministry announced late on Saturday that the country had officially confirmed its first case of monkeypox. Before becoming unwell, the Italian guy visited several locations in the western provinces of the Caribbean island country while living in a rental home, the ministry said in a terse statement.
He presented symptoms on Thursday, including skin lesions, and sought medical attention. He later experienced a cardiac arrest, from which he later recovered, according to the statement. The patient’s condition is still critical.
The epidemic of monkeypox, which has been confirmed in 40,000 people across more than 80 countries where the virus is not endemic and resulted in a small number of fatalities, has been deemed a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
