Confirmed monkeypox cases in Italy are on the rise, standing at 760, or 20 cases more than the previous survey of 26 August. This is indicated by the surveillance system of the Ministry of Health with Regions and Autonomous Provinces.
There are 205 infections linked to travel abroad, the average age is 37 years and 749 males are infected, 11 women. The Region with the highest number of cases, 322, is Lombardy, followed by Lazio with 138, Emilia Romagna with 75, Veneto with 53 and Tuscany with 38.
“The race of monkeypox continues, which has now exceeded 50 thousand cases worldwide, even if in the last two weeks there seems to have been a slight slowdown in growth – underlines on Twitter Matteo Bassetti, director of Infectious Diseases of the San Martino hospital in Genoa – A sign that information, prevention measures and vaccination prophylaxis are working.
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