2022 monkeypox outbreak in Chile | |
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Disease | Monkeypox |
Virus strain | Monkeypox virus (West African clade) |
Location | Chile |
Index case | Santiago de Chile |
Arrival date | June 17, 2022(2 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 4 days)[1] | –present
Confirmed cases | 55 |
Suspected cases‡ | 1 |
Hospitalized cases | 0 |
Recovered | 22 |
Deaths | 0 |
‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out. |
The 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Chile is a part of the outbreak of human monkeypox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus. The outbreak reached Chile on 17 June 2022.[2]
History
editThe first case of infection was recorded on June 17 in Santiago de Chile after an adult with a history of travel to Europe presented symptoms
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Statistics
editRegion | Cases |
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Santiago Metropolitan Region | 50 |
Araucanía | 3 |
Antofagasta | 2 |
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
First case
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Primer caso de viruela del mono" (in Spanish).