'Painful and disruptive' Matt Ford, one of the first Americans to be infected with monkeypox in this current outbreak, detailed his experience with the illness.
's Bianca Peters and Dan Bowens from his home in Los Angeles. Here is the interview, lightly edited for clarity and length. That's like a very big deal to get on social media, expose this very personal part of your life. It's a heavy burden to bear but you did it. What were the responses like from it? And were you scared to do that at first?I was a little bit on the fence at first because there is potential for stigma and it is the internet. But I was very pleasantly surprised.
I believe I got it through skin-to-skin contact. I think that and respiratory droplets seem to be the main way it is spreading, according to the info I've seen and through the CDC. For me, it was pretty intense flu-like symptoms in the beginning with a few lesions. And then as those flu-like symptoms abated, more and more lesions popped up on my skin — some of which were quite painful. In total, I counted more than 25.We are talking weeks.
We're still pretty much in [the coronavirus pandemic]. We're talking about the rise in COVID cases that are happening across the country, but we've just sort of come out of the worst of having to find [COVID] tests and getting vaccines and distribution and the criticism that came with the lack of testing earlier.
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