Arturo M. Henriques is a doctor – and went viral with an entry on Twitter on Saturday. In one thread, he describes how he was sitting on the subway on July 15 when a man covered from head to toe with pustules got on the subway at Legazpi station. Henriques sees immediately: the man’s illness is monkeypox.
The doctor goes on to say that he approached the man and spoke to him. He asked him what he was doing on the subway if he was obviously sick with the monkeypox virus. The infected person replied: “The doctor didn’t tell me that I had to stay at home. Just that I should wear a mask.”
“Don’t get on my balls”
Henriques goes on to mention that, as a doctor, he assured the sick man that these lesions on his skin would be the most propagating of the disease. And tells him that he may have misunderstood the doctor he was treating. To which the man merely replied that he shouldn’t get on his balls with it.
Faced with this situation, the doctor turned to the woman closest to the infected person and asked her if she was not afraid of getting sick too. She replied: “How can I get sick if I’m not homosexual?” Finally, someone from the government said that it was the gays who had to be careful.
First two deaths in Europe
Henriques goes on to say that I stopped discussing it and just got off the subway. However, he later decided to publish this incident and photo on Twitter to write against the disinformation.
Just a few days ago, the outbreak of the monkeypox virus was declared an “emergency of international concern” by the World Health Organization.
The Ministry of Health in Madrid announced the death of another patient on Saturday after reporting the first death on Friday evening. These are the first deaths recorded in Europe related to the rapidly spreading infectious disease. (oco)