It started with a tingle… |
Pornstar shows his monkeypox
Houston – It started with a tingle…
After a party on July 4th, Silver Steele (40) from Houston/Texas (USA) felt a strange burning sensation under his mouth. He thought of razor burn.
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But then on July 11 came small white pimples, fever – and his doctor’s diagnosis: monkeypox.
This is how the disease developed after 14 days
After three weeks the crusts fell off. Steele is afraid the scars will remain
The porn actor used the time in quarantine at home and documented the course of the disease on Instagram.
Virus was discovered in 1958
Monkeypox is a less dangerous relative of smallpox, which has been eradicated for about 40 years. They got their name because the virus was originally discovered in monkeys in 1958. The disease also occurs in other animals.
Monkeypox was first detected in humans in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1970. Since then, the disease has mainly appeared in some West and Central African countries. Since May, however, it has also been increasingly recorded outside of Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency in July due to the significant increase in monkeypox cases.
Typical symptoms of the disease include high fever, swollen lymph nodes and pustules similar to chickenpox. The disease is transmitted through close body and skin contact.
The WHO announced just last week that experts had agreed on new names for the virus variants. So far, the most important variants have been named after the regions in which they occurred – i.e. Congo Basin clade and West African clade. Instead of these designations, Roman numerals should now simply be used – i.e. clade I and clade II.