An old man in the United States has recently become the veritable " chosen person ".
But compared with others, he, the "selected person", was a bit too unlucky: The "selected" incident that happened to him was infected with new crown and monkeypox at the same time.
The two most eye-catching pandemics are all gathered. It is too outrageous for anyone to put this matter on. My brother also said in an interview with the media that he still cannot believe that he can have such "luck".
The old man's name is Mitcho Thompson. He said in the interview that he was diagnosed with the new coronavirus at the end of June. Shortly after that, he noticed red lesions on his back, legs, arms and neck.
At first, he didn't care much about it and didn't think about monkey pox at all.
But after reading too many reports every day, he found that his symptoms seemed to be exactly the same as the monkey pox in the report.
After going to the hospital for a visit, the doctor confirmed that he was indeed infected with monkeypox, and the previous new coronavirus had not yet recovered, which was equivalent to the two viruses raging in his body.
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It doesn’t feel good to get infected with two infectious diseases, and Thompson’s body is particularly weak.
Monkeypox and the new coronavirus will cause symptoms such as fever, cough, shortness of breath, etc. Monkeypox will develop into a rash all over the body, and the worsening of the new coronavirus will affect the lungs.
Under the constant attack of the two viruses, he lay at home for several weeks, feeling uncomfortable all over, and his constant difficulty in breathing and chills made it a difficult thing to get up and drink water.
"The doctor said it is theoretically possible to get infected with two viruses at the same time, but it really happened to me, which is an incredible bad luck." The source of his infection and subsequent treatment measures were not mentioned in the report, but judging from the current situation, Thompson recovered quite well and was not so weak in the video interview.
Netizens also think this matter is too bizarre, but considering the degree of raging new crown, the probability of adding an infectious disease to this is not particularly low.
"After all this, it's only a matter of time. It will happen sooner or later. We will have to deal with the 'new coronavirus acne' in the future"
"This kind of thing may become more and more normalized in the future."
"It's not that this guy is too lucky, it's just that some bad decisions have led to the status quo."
While the new crown epidemic is raging, the monkeypox epidemic is more like a "blind line of plot" buried under this. Although the spread speed is not as fast as the new crown, it has been slowly rising at a stable speed.
World Health Organization Just announced in the past few days that the global confirmed cases of monkeypox have exceeded 14,000, covering 65 countries and regions, and are considering whether to include it as a "public health emergency."
Compared with the new crown, monkeypox transmission efficiency is slower, and most monkeypox cases will not worsen and can usually be cured by themselves.
But this does not mean that monkeypox is not dangerous. In Africa, there have been 5 deaths of infected people.
Specifically in the United States, since May, the United States has confirmed hundreds of cases of monkeypox, becoming the second largest infected country after Spain.
Although monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted disease, the latest UK research shows that, judging from the current situation, most cases of infection occur in men and men.
Just recently, two cases of monkeypox were confirmed in the United States for the first time, which has caused concerns about the spread of monkeypox to a wider population.
Among the two confirmed children, one is a toddler from California , and the other is a non-U.S. resident, who was diagnosed in Washington.
From the perspective of the diagnosis, both of them may have family infections and have had close contact with "male families who have had sex with men".
Compared with ordinary adults, children, pregnant women and other people are more dangerous to be infected with monkey pox, and the risk of causing severe illness is also higher. If monkey pox spreads further to this group of people, it may have a certain impact on the medical system. Epidemic prevention experts such as
Fauci said that the monkeypox epidemic should be treated more seriously.
Because there is no effective and systematic screening statistics, the observed monkeypox epidemic may be just the tip of the iceberg, and he called for more powerful screening tests.
Currently, the detection standards for monkeypox in the United States are relatively strict. If the infected person does not have common rash symptoms and has not had sex with men, it is easy to be misdiagnosed as other diseases.
The consequence of doing this is that once monkey pox is not discovered in time, it is likely to delay treatment time and the virus can easily be transmitted to more people.
also argued that the best time to control monkeypox virus may have been missed at present.
FDA (US Food and Drug Administration ) Director mentioned that even if you have not completely missed the opportunity to curb the monkeypox epidemic, you must have begun to lose the opportunity.
His concerns are understandable: except for a few states, most of the U.S. have confirmed cases of monkeypox, including New York , California, Florida , etc.
Take New York as an example. As of Thursday, about 778 people in the city were infected. As for whether there are still "flies" that have not been detected, it is unknown.
While monkeypox spread rapidly, human research on monkeypox is also underway, hoping to find a suitable solution before it spreads more widely.
Last month, a study published in the journal Nature found that the mutation rate of monkeypox virus has exceeded expectations. Scientists believe that it is likely to become more adaptable to the human body during the spread of monkeypox to the world.
This month, the British Journal of Medicine published a study on the transmission pathways of monkeypox.
After studying 528 confirmed cases of monkeypox in 16 countries, researchers found that 95% of these cases were transmitted through sexual behavior.
Although monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted disease and can be infected through any form of close contact, in sexual behavior, "close contact" gives monkeypox more opportunities to take advantage of.
At the same time, many cases have symptoms of similar sexual transmission such as genital lesions. Before this, these have never been regarded as typical symptoms of monkey pox.
is similar to the new crown. Monkeypox is also escaping the encirclement of humans in the constant mutation, and is racing against human research and prevention progress.
If the current situation does not improve at all, monkeypox will continue to spread around the world without restraint, and "infection with monkeypox and COVID-19 at the same time" may really become a very common thing.
Like the American brothers at the beginning, more and more people will become extremely lucky "chosen people".
We can only hope that things will never come to this point...
