A health professional prepares syringes with vaccines against Monkeypox at a medical center in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, July 26, 2022.
Spain on Friday reported the death of a person from monkeypox, which Spanish media said was a first for the European Union nation.
In its latest report on the virus, Spain's Health Ministry said 120 people had been admitted to the hospital so far with monkeypox and one had died. Spain's state news agency Efe and other media outlets said it was the country's first monkeypox death. The ministry gave no further details regarding the death. It said Spain had 4,298 people infected with the virus. Of that, some 3,500 cases were of men who had sex with other men. Of the total, only 64 were women.
Experts suspect that monkeypox outbreaks in Europe and North America were ignited by sex at two raves in Belgium and Spain. The current outbreak is by far the biggest involving the virus, and it's been designated by the World Health Organization as a global health emergency.
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