A 36-year-old man in Italy appears to be the world's first documented case of being diagnosed with COVID-19, monkeypox, and HIV at the same time this summer, according to a recent case report.
on June 29, which was 9 days after he returned from a 5-day trip to Spain. On July 2, he tested positive for COVID-19, and he noticed a rash on his left arm later that afternoon.that spread across his face, torso, legs, and glutes. On July 5, he went to the emergency department at a hospital in Catania, Italy, where he was admitted into the infectious disease unit.
Based on the symptoms and recent travel to Spain, the doctors suspected the patient had also gotten monkeypox, and they collected samples for testing. The man said that while in Spain, he had unprotected sex with other men, which has been a risk factor for monkeypox during the current outbreak. On July 6, he tested positive for monkeypox,Based on the incubation periods of COVID-19 and monkeypox, the patient may have caught them at the same time, the doctors wrote.
The patient told doctors that he tested negative for HIV in September 2021. His CD4 lymphocyte count, or a test that measures how many of these white blood cells are in the blood, was still normal at the time of the positive test in July. This means he may have contracted HIV recently as well.began to crust and heal, and by the fifth day, his symptoms had almost cleared up.
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