Peru registers first death in monkeypox patient: hospital
Lima – 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.