Kevin Kwong initially thought the problem was eczema. Several appointments later, scared and in pain, Kwong received two incorrect diagnoses before an infectious disease specialist diagnosed him with monkeypox.
have been concentrated in the San Francisco Bay Area.
"You would be advising people to not engage in sexual activity until their lesions are healed and treated," Brewer said."Your body is being taken over by this thing that you don't understand. And you have nowhere to go, so it's both painful and terrifying," Kwong said. Over the July Fourth holiday weekend, Kwong frantically reached out to anyone he thought could help as his symptoms worsened.
He spent 12 hours in the emergency room, where nurses swabbed his lesions for a monkeypox test. They told him to come back if he developed a fever or started vomiting. The next day, Chin-Hong started treating Kwong for monkeypox."I thought, wow, this is really, really extensive disease," Chin-Hong said."I've seen other cases of monkeypox before, but they're very limited. I would say Kevin is probably in the top 5% of severity of diseases."
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