The monkey pox continues to wreak havoc around the world, the great expansion that the disease has had has quickly made it a threat to be taken into account by health authorities, meanwhile, the networks are filled with images about the effects they have on the skin of the infected and this man’s case is no exception.
While the Covid-19 are kept alive in the memory of many, monkeypox seems to be the next nightmare that the world will go through, the disease directly attacks the skin of patients, causing horrible lesions that can completely destroy the skin and even generate the death of certain tissues if not treated in time.
Monkeypox patient shows the disasters the disease has wrought on his nose
The misdiagnosis of this German patient ended up leaving his nose in an almost decomposing state, as he initially approached his trusted doctor after realizing that he had begun to develop a redness in his nose and was sent back home thinking it was a simple sunburn.
This German man has been diagnosed with Monkey Pox, Syphillis AND HIV. He has ‘never’ been tested for diseases before. His nose of him is rotting as his body of him cannot fight. He has been the author of his own downfall of it. #CRAZY pic.twitter.com/3GccukPoE7
— The Black Opinion (@opinion_black) August 17, 2022
After just a few days, the patient realized that the lesion began to turn black and even began to ooze pus in the areas near his mouth and penis, he immediately reported it to the local authorities.
As expected, the patient tested positive for monkeypox and was prescribed antivirals, which got rid of the pus-filled sores and helped reduce the swelling in his nose, but still couldn’t reverse the damage to his skin.
German patient is diagnosed with multiple diseases
According to the doctors who treated the patient and who subsequently carried out a study on his case, its complexity is due to other complications that were found together with monkeypox and late treatment.
The patient was also diagnosed with syphilis and HIV, both of which he had been suffering from for a long time and which further weakened him. Unfortunately, nothing more is known about the man’s condition, but the case is being evaluated by doctors around the world to learn more about the disease.