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Peru registers first death in monkeypox patient: hospital

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

The fatality was “a patient who came to hospital in a serious condition with monkeypox and their health weakened after abandoning treatment for HIV/Aids,” according to Eduardo Farfan, director of the Dos de Mayo hospital in Lima.

The man, 45, died “of sepsis” due to a weakened immune system, said Farfan.

He had been admitted to hospital with a severe monkeypox infection and “other comorbidities,” said the director.

Farfan said his hospital was treating about eight or nine cases of monkeypox per day, on an outpatient basis.

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

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