A California man says he has contracted both Covid and monkeypox at the same time.
Soon after Mitcho Thompson tested positive for Covid-19 last month, he noticed red lesions on his back, legs, arms and neck.
Thompson described the severe symptoms he faced, including having trouble breathing, a fever, chills, body aches and skin lesions. Dr Dean Winslow, a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at Stanford, told NBC that while having both ailments at once was unlikely, it wasn’t out of the question.
Over 14,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported worldwide, the World Health Organization said earlier this week. The majority of cases have been found in Europe, although all five deaths reported from the virus were in Africa.
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