Two young men with monkey pox (or “Monkeypox”) detailed their symptoms.
- Two young French people who contracted the virus at the end of June tell their ordeal to BFMTV.com.
- Monkeypox, the number of cases of which has tripled in two weeks in Europe, worries the World Health Organization.
He was a thousand miles from suspecting that he had contracted the virus: diagnosed on Wednesday June 29, Nicolas Prata, a 24-year-old young man from Lyon had begun to feel a fever and strong sore throats, which he and his doctor took for angina.
He is now hospitalized and on morphine for 5 days.
“I didn’t believe it at all”
“At the hospital, when they told me that I might have caught monkeypox, I didn’t believe it at all” he tells BFMTV.com
However, the pustules, characteristic symptoms of the virus, do not take long to arrive: “It looked like tiny mosquito pimples but honestly if I had not been asked the question, at no time would I have noticed them. had to look at my body with a magnifying glass,” he explains.
close contact
It was during contact with the mouth of a friend that he could have been contaminated, and it is also “close contact” that Corentin Hennebert, 27-year-old Parisian, who was diagnosed three days after the first symptoms similar to hemorrhoids.
“I found it abnormal and I quickly went to the hospital because it was already very restrictive: I could no longer sleep. They were sleepless nights. I couldn’t eat anymore, I avoided it because I had a lot of pain when I went to the toilet,” he says.
He thought he had caught the Covid-19 but his test was negative.
extremely painful
It didn’t take long for the pimples to appear. “I have extremely painful and very very constricting lesions that have appeared on the mucous membranes”, in the area of the genitals. “Then finally, sorts of pimples on the body and the face: scabs which do not heal, basically”.
His condition is improving but the pain is bearable only with strong painkillers. “Today it still throws me and the pimples are still there even though they are starting to shrink a bit”
3000 cases
An unusual upsurge in monkeypox cases has been detected since May outside countries in West and Central Africa, where the virus usually circulates.
More than 3,000 cases have thus been identified in Europe and on the American continent, according to theWorld Health Organization (WHO) who called for “urgent action” in the face of the tripling of cases in Europe.
In France, 498 people were infected as of June 30, according to Public Health France which recalls the symptoms to watch out for:
Fluid-filled blisters that concentrate on the face, in the anogenital area, the palms of the hands and soles of the feet but can also affect the trunk and the limbs.
They evolve towards drying, the formation of scabs and then healing, itching can also occur.
The mucous membranes are also affected by its outbreaks of vesicle, in the mouth and the genital area, and can be accompanied by fever, headaches, body aches.
Lymph nodes may be swollen and painful, under the jaw, in the neck or in the fold of the groin. Sore throats are also reported.