Swiss company, which developed Testing for COVID-19 At the start of the pandemic, it was one of the first companies to develop a test for monkeypox.
test points two different regions of the virus genome is that less likely to mutateIn order to detect it it must have evolved, the Swiss group said.
Monkeypox in Argentina
for his part, he Argentine Ministry of Health (MINSA). announced this Monday that the country freezes 808 positive cases since the end of last may First infection with that disease.
In its most recent epidemiological bulletin published on the website, MINSA noted that confirmed cases were reported in 15 provinces and suspected cases in 21.
the text in question expanded on The highest record of cases was detected in the central regionwhereas 66.3% positives were recorded among residents of the Autonomous City of Buenos AiresWhich, together with the provinces of Buenos Aires and Córdoba, concentrates 94.9 percent of infected people.
By far, as noted, the most affected population is men who have sex with other men and have a history of promiscuous sex.
It should be noted that the disease remains a global health emergency, which is the maximum alert level according to the World Health Organization (WHO). So far, nearly 80,000 cases have been reported in 106 countries, with 36 deaths.