'It's defeating': A Miami man who's spent more than a week in the hospital battling monkeypox is sharing his painful journey on social media in an effort to bring attention to the outbreak.
Araujo said he first started feeling symptoms on July 4, when he had a fever and then chills. He thought it was just a cold but then the bumps started appearing.
As they got bigger in size, Araujo suspected it was more than a cold and went to Jackson Memorial Hospital to get them checked out. That's when doctors confirmed his worst fears: it was monkeypox.Symptoms take 7-14 days to show, but can take up to 21 days to show Araujo believes he became infected at a night club where he was in close contact with others and may have grazed someone was unknowingly carrying the virus.
"Just be aware this is not just a sexually transmitted disease, this is an everyday, anybody disease," Araujo said."Anyone can get it. You can get it any kind of way, touching a table surface I just touched, touching an ATM I just went to." More than 1,000 cases has been reported in the U.S. as of Friday, with most of the infections occurring among gay men, but health officials stress that anyone can get the disease. Scientists warn that anyone who is in close physical contact with someone who has monkeypox or their clothing or bedsheets is at risk of infection, regardless of their sexual orientation."It feels like somebody struck like a match and set fire to my skin when they get bothered or touched," he said.
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