It is a “public health emergency of international proportions”: the World Health Organization (WHO) has been nervous for weeks about the spread of a new variant of the viral disease Mpox, previously known as “monkeypox”. There are fears of a global spread, but the problem was seen coming.
When a 35-year-old man with lesions all over his body walked into the University Hospital in the Nigerian port city of Port Harcourt on May 1, 2017, medical staff were at a loss. An ulcer had eaten into the man’s penis, recalled treating dermatologist Bolaji Otike-Odibi. “It looked like it was falling off,” she said, describing the disturbing sight.
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