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Peru records first death in monkeypox patient: hospital

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Peru recorded its first death of a person infected with monkeypox on Monday, with more than 300 cases reported in the country so far, a health official said.

The fatality was “a patient who was hospitalized in a serious condition with monkeypox and whose health was weak after discontinuing treatment for HIV/AIDS,” according to Eduardo Farfan, director of Dos de Mayo Hospital in Lima.

The 45-year-old man died “of sepsis” due to a compromised immune system, Farfan said.

He was hospitalized with a severe monkeypox infection and “other comorbidities,” the director said.

Farfan said his hospital treats about eight or nine cases of monkeypox a day on an outpatient basis.

According to the WHO, since the beginning of May more than 18,000 cases of monkeypox have been detected worldwide outside of Africa, most of them in Europe.

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