- Until now, more than 16,000 cases of monkeypox have been identified in the world, in addition to 5 deaths.
- Due to the rapid expansion of the outbreak, it has already been classified by the WHO as an international public health emergency.
- While a TikTok user who was infected created a video to recount his experience and show the marks on his skin that the disease has caused.
Social networks have become a new form of communication that is used by millions of people every day. One of its main functions is to eliminate geographical distances to bring people together. Similarly, they can help to deliver messages and raise awareness. Such is the case of a man who caught monkeypox and created a TikTok video to recount his experience.
In that sense, this application created in China is already the sixth most popular in the world. According to Statista it has about a billion active usersalthough the most surprising thing is the rapid growth it has had.
It was only in 2016 when it was launched for the first time in the Asian country. While a couple of years later it changed its name to TikTok and it was when its explosion began that seems to have no end.
One of the main characteristics of this social network is that allows you to edit and publish short videos. The options are quite extensive, ranging from changing the background to modifying the voices and adding slides.
How has a person with monkeypox lived through the disease?
As a result of all of the above, a user took advantage of his TikTok account to recount his experience with monkey pox. Is about Matt Ford who is an adult film actor who is also known as Silver Steele.
Through a video he explains his experience and the symptoms he has had in the hope that it will help other people. First, he mentions that he had to see a doctor to undergo the necessary tests and be sure of his condition.
Regarding its symptoms, it mentions that the main and most notorious are the marks on his skin. So far it has developed rashes on the arms, hands, chin and abdomen. Although beyond the visual aspect, he emphasizes that all these points cause severe pain. In fact, the medical staff had to prescribe painkillers to reduce his discomfort.
Similarly, through the TikTok video stresses that other monkeypox symptoms he has had have been flu, sore throat, cough, fever, chills and night sweats.
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It also emphasizes that by medical indication stay isolated to avoid infecting other people. In addition to that every day it begins to improve and even the skin marks have begun to diminish.
International public health emergency
On the other hand, it is necessary to remember that given the exponential increase in cases The World Health Organization (WHO) has already classified the monkeypox outbreak as an international public health emergency.
Until the cut of July 23, they had reported 16 thousand cases in 75 countries and territories, in addition to five deaths. While there are more infections every day and it is feared that the problem will get out of control as it happened with the Covid-19 pandemic.