Cuba has reported its first case of monkeypox.
Cuba reported its first monkeypox case on Saturday in an Italian tourist who is in “critical” condition.
The ministry of health in a note broadcasted by National Television, said that “the patient, who arrived in Cuba Monday and was hospitalized three days later, “is in critical condition with his life in danger.”
After feeling unwell Wednesday, the patient’s health worsened and by Thursday he was transferred to the hospital for “intensive treatment, arriving in cardiac arrest from which he recovered.”
The tourist had stayed in a rental house and “visited several places in the country’s western provinces,” the ministry added.
The note broadcasted by the ministry of health did not reveal the age or other details of the patient.
However, the ministry said it would carry out an approved protocol for dealing with monkeypox.