In Paraguay, there are 125 patients with monkeypox

And the Ministry of Health stated that 99% of the infected are males, and only one female patient was registered, according to laboratory results, while the average age is 33 years.

The regions with the highest infection rate of the virus are the metropolitan areas (60 percent) and Asuncion (39 percent), while there is only one confirmed case in President Hayes.

The 72 reported monkeypox patients this year were detected during the January-March period, according to the Health Surveillance Directorate report.

Among the main symptoms seen in the cases identified in the country were skin lesions (including the genitals), muscle pain, decay, fever, headache, and swollen glands.

Monkeypox or monkeypox, a zoonotic disease caused by a virus of the genus Corticoviruses, was first detected in Denmark in 1958 among research monkeys, although the first case in humans was in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The World Health Organization declared a multinational outbreak of this type of smallpox on July 23, 2022 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

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