Monkeypox cases are on the rise in Greater Manchester. Vaccines have been limited to those at the very highest risk of the disease, with people being invited by text to clinics to get their jab.
22.07.2022 - 01:25 / metroweekly.com
Jeff is not sure exactly when he became infected with monkeypox, but he suspects it may have been while he was visiting Berlin.“I was going on vacation for two weeks,” says the 35-year-old Baltimore resident. “I was going to be in the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and Germany. Before I left, I’d been seeing a couple of stories pop up here and there on the Internet about monkeypox spreading through Europe.
So I asked my doctor if there was a way to get a vaccine before going. And she said, ‘Sorry, We don’t have smallpox vaccine in our little queer clinic in Baltimore yet.’ So I knew the virus existed but didn’t really know much more than that.“About nine days after I got home, I just had these terrible headaches,” he continues. “I went out to dinner with a friend and it was so bad I left kind of abruptly.
It was like, ‘I’ve got to get home.’ I had a bad fever that went up to 102 degrees, which is very high for anyone, but my temperature tends to run on the cooler side. I just thought I had a bit of a bug and took a bunch of NyQuil. “I woke up the next morning and I felt completely fine. So I kind of went about my life all day Saturday until a friend of mine in Berlin shared with me that he had tested positive for monkeypox.
He didn’t infect me, because of the timing. But he was sharing some of his symptoms and some photos of his lesions. And I was like, ‘Well, I don’t have any lesions.
So I don’t think that’s what I have.“The very next day, I started noticing some lesions pop up on my body. They were not painful, and they were not itchy, and my flu symptoms were gone by the time they appeared. So I think that I had a pretty mild case in that regard, but they did last for about three, three-and-a-half weeks,
.Monkeypox cases are on the rise in Greater Manchester. Vaccines have been limited to those at the very highest risk of the disease, with people being invited by text to clinics to get their jab.
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