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Brazil records 1,055 mpox cases and one death this year
Brazil has recorded 1,055 confirmed mpox cases this year, according to the Health Ministry, along with one death.
Rio de Janeiro has 390 cases and São Paulo 388, the highest totals among the states.
Mpox spreads mainly through direct contact with an infected person’s lesions or secretions, and can cause fever, aches and painful skin or mucous-membrane sores.
Brazil recorded about 10,500 cases and 14 deaths in 2022, during a global outbreak, while last year it recorded 1,075 cases and two deaths.
The government has ordered 25,000 more vaccine doses, expected to arrive within three weeks.
The vaccine is offered through Brazil’s public health system in two doses, 28 days apart, to specific groups at higher risk, including some people living with HIV and laboratory workers handling mpox samples; it is not a mass vaccination programme.
Brazil recorded 1,055 confirmed mpox cases and one death this year through Friday, November 13, according to the Health Ministry’s epidemiological dashboard.
Rio de Janeiro had 390 cases, and São Paulo had 388.
The death was in Rio de Janeiro; the city said the patient had another underlying condition that worsened the case.
The Health Ministry authorized the purchase of 25,000 vaccine doses to reinforce the vaccination program.
The ministry’s vaccination program is for specific groups and is not conducted as mass vaccination.
- Who
- People in Brazil diagnosed with mpox; the reported death was in Rio de Janeiro.
- What
- Brazil recorded 1,055 confirmed cases and one death this year.
- When
- Through Friday, November 13, 2026.
- Where
- Brazil, with the most cases in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
- Why
- Not stated
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The Health Ministry said Brazil had 832 cases, according to CNN Brasil.
The Health Ministry announced the purchase of 25,000 vaccine doses; CNN Brasil dates the announcement to November 8, while Folha says it was announced on November 9.
The ministry’s dashboard showed 1,023 cases and one death, according to CNN Brasil.
The ministry’s dashboard showed 1,055 confirmed cases and one death, according to Folha.
- Confirmed cases
- 1,055 through November 13
- Deaths
- 1
- Rio de Janeiro cases
- 390
- São Paulo cases
- 388
- Vaccine purchase
- 25,000 doses
- Clade Ib cases in São Paulo
- 103
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What people are saying
The first symptoms are nonspecific, with fever, body aches, headache and malaise. It ends up being attributed to more common viral infections.
They counted 39 lesions. It was a torturous pain. Pain of death.