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By Malu Cursino
BBC News

Published
10 hours ago


Brazil and Spain have reported their first monkeypox deaths.

A 41-year-old man in Brazil became the first fatality from the virus outside Africa. Spain announced its first death soon afterwards, which is also the first in Europe.

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Brazil has so far reported 1,066 confirmed cases and 513 suspected cases of the virus. Data from Brazil's health ministry indicates that more than 98% of confirmed cases were in men who have sex with men.

Shortly afterwards, Spain's health ministry confirmed Europe's first death from the virus.

In a report, it said that of 3,750 monkeypox patients with available information, 120 or 3.2% had been hospitalised and one had died.


https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62350022