Spain Reports 2nd Monkeypox-Related Death in Europe

Spain Reports 2nd Monkeypox-Related Death in Europe
Two samples of suspected cases of monkeypox go through a process of nucleic acid extraction as they get tested at a microbiology lab at La Paz Hospital in Madrid on June 1, 2022. Susana Vera/Reuters
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MADRID—Spain reported its second monkeypox-related death on Saturday, in what is thought to be Europe’s second death from the disease and only the third outside of Africa in the current outbreak.

Spain had reported its first death as recently as Friday, shortly after Brazil reported the first monkeypox-related death outside the African continent in the current wave of the disease.