The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands registers this Thursday five positive and four negative cases. In the last hours no new study has been initiated for possible diagnosis of monkeypox.
Currently there are a total of 16 confirmed cases in the Canary Islands since the beginning of the declaration of the health alert, 11 in Gran Canaria and five in Tenerife.
Thus, the cases confirmed and notified in the Canary Islands from the beginning of the alert until today are as follows: 16 confirmed cases, 11 in Gran Canaria and five in Tenerife; three probable cases pending confirmation, detected in Gran Canaria; two suspected cases, pending confirmation, which have been detected one in Gran Canaria and another in Fuertentura and ten discarded cases.
On the other hand, the Ministry informs that studies of possible cases of monkeypox have begun in the Canary Islands, since the Ministry of Health has allowed the health services of the autonomous communities with laboratories that have the validated technique to start the activity. The Microbiology laboratory of the Nuestra Señora de Candelaria University Hospital, in Tenerife, began these studies this Wednesday and the one at the Doctor Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria will begin shortly.
In this way, the timeframes for the diagnosis of this disease are shortened, since until now the national protocol indicated that the National Center for Microbiology in Madrid should carry out the tests in order to unify criteria. Once the virus has been sequenced and put into clinical practice, the health services of the autonomous communities can carry out the diagnostic tests in the laboratories that have the validation of the technique.
