The Canary Islands confirmed this Tuesday, May 24, the second case of monkeypoxafter the Ministry of Health corroborated the diagnosis of the first person who has contracted this disease in the Islands, specifically in Gran Canaria. At the moment in the Canary Islands seven cases are under study, six of them in Gran Canaria and one in Fuerteventura, which corresponds to a British tourist. In addition to the confirmed case in Gran Canaria and another in Tenerife.
The medical authorities have called for calm and have insisted that this is not a case similar to that of Covid-19. The Head of the Prevention Epidemiology Service of the General Directorate of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, Álvaro Torreshas assured, in the microphones of COPE Canarias that “the virus has difficulties to be transmitted more quickly, since it is an animal virus and not a human one”.
In addition, about the contagions having been generated, according to EL PAÍS, at Maspalomas GayPride held last weekend, the head of epidemiology points out that there is not enough data to know if the outbreak comes from there. That is why there is no need to stigmatize a group.
“We have no data, stigmatizing is useless, we have many experiences with other diseases. We are seeing in the Canary Islands with 7 cases and in the rest of Europe, there have been few cases. In this event there were 80,000 people, if we are working with 9, there are very few cases “has pointed out.
In the case of monkeypox, there are different ways of contagion, not only by sexual transmission. From Health, it is recommended that the cohabitants of people who suspect they have monkeypox wear a mask, so as not to share the same air.
