A new case of a hospitalized man showed new symptoms associated with the monkeypox virus, which can appear in infected people shortly after infection.
A 31-year-old man was diagnosed with myocarditis just one week after the onset of symptoms of monkeypox infection, according to the British newspaper “The Sun”.
Although most people with myocarditis recover without complications, in rare cases where the inflammation is severe, significant damage to the heart may occur.
Paramedics told Case Reports that the unidentified man presented to the hospital with symptoms of monkeypox just three days after visiting the clinic, with chest tightness that spread to his left arm.
“We believe that reporting this association can increase the scientific community’s awareness of acute myocarditis as a potential complication associated with monkeypox,” said Ana Isabel Pinho, director of cardiology at the São João University Hospital Center in Portugal.
Scientists first identified monkeypox when the virus was detected in experimental monkeys in Denmark in 1958, knowing that it had also been found in rodents.
The disease was first identified in humans in 1970 and since then it has spread mainly in some West and Central African countries.
Last May, cases of the disease, which causes fever, muscle aches and large skin blisters, spread rapidly around the world again.
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