Spain reports this first death case in Europe

Xinhua News Agency, Madrid, July 29 (Xie Yizhi) The Spanish Ministry of Health confirmed on the 29th that the country's first case of acne death occurred. According to the Spanish Broadcasting and Television Corporation, this is also the first death case in Europe in this monkey acne epidemic.

This death case appeared in the Balencia Autonomous Region in eastern Spain. According to a local health department, the patient died of encephalitis related to infection. The health department said it will continue to analyze this case.

According to data provided by the Spanish National Popular Disease Monitoring Network on the 29th, the country has now diagnosed 4298 cases of acne. However, due to delayed data reports in various places, the actual number of cases may be higher.

Statistics show that the age of these cases ranges from 10 months to 88 years old, with an average age of 37. There are 120 cases of cases need to be hospitalized; in addition, in the cases that can query information, the number of men is 4081 cases, and the number of women is the number of women. 64 cases. Among 2253 cases that can obtain relevant information, 82.1%of infection comes from close contact in sexual relationships, and 10.5%is close contact with sex.

The World Health Organization announced on the 23rd that the multi -country monkey acne epidemic constitutes a "international concern public health incident."

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