Man Tests Positive for COVID, Monkeypox and HIV After Spain Trip

[ItsjustMe]

https://www.newsweek.com/man-tests-positive-covid-monkeypox-hiv-after-spain-rip-1736632


A man from Italy has tested positive for COVID-19, monkeypox, and HIV all at the same time after returning from a short trip in Spain, according to researchers from the University of Catania in Italy.

The scientists stated in the Journal of Infection that the 36-year-old man, who has not been identified, developed fever, a sore throat, fatigue, and headache as a result of the co-infection.

The Italian man reportedly spent five days in Spain in June and developed the symptoms nine days after returning from his trip.

As for COVID, the patient received two doses of the COVID vaccine and had already contracted the virus in January, but he tested positive for COVID-19 on July 2 and began developing a rash on his left arm on the same day.

The next day, small, painful vesicles that surrounded a rash appeared on the patient's torso, lower limbs, face and glutes. The vesicles continued to spread on July 5 and developed into pustules, which prompted him to go to the emergency department at the University Hospital in Catania where he was transferred to the Infectious Diseases Unit.

At the hospital, the patient tested positive for monkeypox after reporting that he had "condomless intercourse with men during his stay in Spain." Multiple STI tests also came back positive for HIV, in which the scientists said that they "assume that the infection was relatively recent."

"This case highlights how monkeypox and COVID-19 symptoms may overlap, and corroborates how in case of co-infection, anamnestic collection and sexual habits are crucial to perform the correct diagnosis," researchers said.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Must have been one hell of a party. nt

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

5. 🥂🍾🍺🍷

[Lovie777]

2. WTF? . ....

[live love laugh]

13. ✓✓

[Effete Snob]

3. Well, I've never been to Spain...

[ItsjustMe]

6. Damn You

I love this song, I am singing it again.

I hope the neighbors don't hear me.

[tanyev]

4. My goodness, quite the overachiever.

[2naSalit]

7. Trifecta!

Geeze, I hope it doesn't kill him of leave him incapacitated.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. What? No STDs???

[enid602]

9. Tourist

The article makes it sound like it’s not known how long he’s been HIV positive. I think being immuno compromised would make him more likely to contract the other two diseases. I imagine the right wing media will have fun with this one.

[vercetti2021]

10. And thus the super virus is born

A mix of all three is like some movie plot waiting to happen

[bahboo]

11. Dude!

[TeamProg]

12. Darwin Award candidate. Stupid foolishness. nt