I recently reported on a spectacularly slow learner: an HIV positive man who graduated to monkeypox. By, yet again, having unprotected sex with multiple men.
“Hold my pus-encrusted, canker-ridden penis,” says this bloke.
Scientists have reported the first known case of a person testing positive for monkeypox, Covid-19 and HIV at the same time.
No doubt staff presented him with a plaque and a rainbow ribbon to mark his prize-winning achievement. It’s purely a rumour that they offered to throw in a dose of syphilis: catch three diseases, get one free!
It’s also just a rumour that doctors called out, Bingo! when they finished filling out the results.
Earlier this year, a 36-year-old Italian male began to develop a series of symptoms — including fatigue, fever, and a sore throat — nine days after returning from a trip to Spain.
The man, who has not been identified, spent five days in Spain from 16 to 20 June 2022 during which he admitted to having unprotected sex with men.
To the surprise of absolutely no one.
On July 2, the man tested positive for Covid, according to a case study report published in the Journal of Infection.
On the afternoon of the same day, a rash started to develop on his left arm. The following day, small, painful vesicles surrounded by a rash appeared on the man’s torso, lower limbs, face and glutes.
“Glutes”? Ohh, you mean his bum. Now, how did they get there?
By July 5, the vesicles had further spread and evolved into pustules – small bumps on the skin – at which point the man went to the emergency department at the San Marco University Hospital in Catania, Italy and was subsequently transferred to the Infectious Diseases unit.
There, he was tested for monkeypox and subsequently returned a positive result […]
The researchers added: ‘As this is the only reported case of monkeypox virus, SARS-CoV-2 and HIV co-infection, there is still not enough evidence supporting that this combination may aggravate patient’s condition.
Unless he’s like Uncle Jack in Ripping Yarns: The Curse of the Claw, who collects infectious diseases for a hobby.
Officially declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO), monkeypox has spread to dozens of countries in what is being termed an ‘extraordinary event’ by experts.
And known as “Pride Month” to the rest of us.
There have been nearly 32,000 monkeypox cases worldwide since the latest outbreak started in May. More than 3,000 patients have been diagnosed in the UK and 10,000 in the US […]
So far, the UK has diagnosed 3,081 people with the tropical disease.
The vast majority of infections so far have been found in gay or bisexual men, but the virus can be spread or caught by anyone.
Daily Mail
Well, anyone who lubes up and spreads wide at the local barebacking orgy, anyway.
And why not? Start your collection of exotic diseases today! Search for the Golden Staph Ticket in specially marked copies of Pink News. First one to get the Black Plague wins an all-expenses-paid trip to San Francisco Pride ‘23.
