Dean Winslow, an infectious disease specialist at Stanford University, confirmed that “it’s not impossible” to get infected with both viruses.
Courtesy RT in Spanish | He was first diagnosed with the coronavirus and then he got the rashes
Mitcho Thompson, a man from Sebastopol, California, contracted covid-19 and monkeypox at the same time, an overwhelming combination that left him bedridden for weeks.
As Thompson stated in a recent interview with NBC Bay Area, it all started at the end of June, when he was tested and tested positive for covid-19. However, shortly following, small red lesions on the back, legs, arms and neck began to be added to the usual symptoms of the coronavirus.
“The doctor was very sure that he had monkeypox and that he had both [enfermedades]», stressed the man.
Because that was the question. Can I have them at the same time? And he said, ‘Yes, yes, yes,'” she added.
These two infections combined caused Thompson to suffer from fever, shortness of breath, chills and body aches for weeks.
“The worst thing was, honestly, I might barely get out of bed,” she recalled.
For his part, Dean Winslow, an infectious disease specialist at Stanford University, confirmed that “it is not impossible” to be infected with both viruses simultaneously, but that “it is extremely bad luck”, since it is “virus very different”.
Monkeypox is endemic to Africa and was first detected in Spain in April.
Its symptoms are similar to those of the eradicated smallpox, although milder. So far more than 14,000 cases have been reported worldwide.
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