(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 23 - Italian monkeypox cases have risen by 52 to 714 in the last seven days, the health ministry said in its latest update Tuesday.
    Some 194 are linked to trips abroad, the ministry said.
    Males are almost all the cases, 704.
    The average age of cases is 37.
    There have been no deaths from the pox in Italy, but an Italian has died in Cuba.
    Among Italy's regions, the highest number of cases is Lombardy with 308, the ministry said.
    It is followed by Lazio with 128, Emilia Romagna (73), and Veneto (48).
    Only Basilicata, Calabria, Molise, Umbria and Val d'Aosta have reported no cases.
    The Italian embassy in Havana is assisting the family of the Italian who died of monkeypox on the island. (ANSA).