An Italian man has tested positive for COVID-19, Monkeypox and HIV simultaneously after returning from a holiday in Spain, according to media reports.
Earlier, Sky News reported that the unnamed 36-year-old had undergone a series of tests after he showed symptoms of different diseases, including fever, headache, fatigue, sore throat and large spots.
The double-vaccinated man had reportedly spent five days in Spain, from June 16 to 20. Nine days later, his temperature was recorded at 39 degrees Celsius with complains of a sore throat, fatigue, headache and pain in his groin.
On July 2, he tested positive for COVID-19 and later the same day a rash appeared on his left arm, which turned into small, agonzingly painful spots surrounded by a red ring on his torso, lower limbs, face and bottom.
The spots continued to swell and three days later he went to the emergency department at the University Hospital in Catania, where he was transferred to the Infectious Diseases Unit, confirming his monkeypox infection.
This Italian man told doctors that he had been treated for Syphilis in 2019 and. He had taken an HIV test last year which produced a negative result, but he was later found to be positive.
Baffled by the news, Italian doctors were startled to see the first person known to have contracted all three viruses at the same time. The health bodies in the concerned country have been warned to be on the alert for monkeypox occurring in patient at the same time as coronavirus.
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