An American infected with monkeypox, on vacation in the resort town of Puerto Vallarta in Mexico, fled the hospital he was in before returning to the United States.
Affected by monkey pox, an American tourist on vacation in Mexico fled the hospital where he was being treated to return to the United States.
The doctors at the establishment, suspicious, had told him to remain in solitary confinement in order to be tested for monkeypox. The 48-year-old Texan, on vacation in Puerto Vallarta, however decided to do the exact opposite, fleeing the establishment in which he was hospitalized, then Mexico, before carrying out a test to find out if he had contracted smallpox. of the monkey. Test which turned out to be positive.
SYMPTOMS EVOKING THIS DISEASE
The man arrived at the hospital with telling symptoms. Indeed, he suffered from “cough, chills, muscle aches and rashes on his face, neck and trunk”. After escaping from hospital, the man briefly checked into the hotel he was staying in, before boarding a plane bound for the United States on June 4 as Mexican authorities were still unable to to locate it.
LOTS OF PREVIOUS TRAVELS
Before traveling to Mexico on May 27, the man had passed through Berlin between May 12 and 16. He had continued his trip by the city of Dallas (Texas), in the seaside resort of Jalisco, then he participated in parties at the Mantamar Beach Club, a famous vacation club in the homosexual community.
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The WHO said more than 1,000 cases of monkeypox have been detected in countries where the disease is not endemic and that the risk of the virus taking hold was “real”. The disease is much less dangerous than its cousin, “classic” smallpox, eradicated since 1980. However, it seems to mainly affect “men who have sex with other men”, although the virus has also affected a few women.
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