Havana, August 22 (RHC)-- The Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported the death of the first person in the country to be diagnosed with monkeypox.

A MINSAP communiqué stated that, as it was informed,  the first case diagnosed on August 20 was a 50-year-old Italian male patient who arrived in the country as a tourist on August 15 of this year.

This patient evolved rapidly towards gravity, being in an unstable critical condition since August 18, and died in the afternoon of August 21.

The necropsy report performed at the Institute of Legal Medicine showed that the cause of death was sepsis due to bronchopneumonia caused by an unspecified germ and multiple organ damage.

Likewise, through the studies carried out from the beginning to look for possible associated causes that may have conditioned his severity, other pathologies of infectious etiology were ruled out.

As a result of the outbreak, control actions provided for in the protocol approved for the prevention of this disease in the country, the contacts of the patient, so far asymptomatic, are being kept isolated.