It all started with buttons. On hands, feet, genitals. Symptoms that immediately alert Sebastien, a 32-year-old resident of Ile-de-France, already well-informed about monkeypox, on the first weekend of July. “I immediately called 15 to find out what I should do. Because I told them I was gay, they referred me for sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing. I ticked all the boxes for the symptoms of monkeypox, but they didn’t listen to me.” He says. Fever, fatigue, aches, headaches and swelling of the groin glands. In the following days, other signs of the disease appear. After a fruitless call to the doctor, Sebastien went to the hospital’s “infectious” emergency room himself to find out for sure. It is not surprising that the result goes down. Then begins a three-week period of prolonged isolation in the middle of a heat wave, a difficult life on a psychological level…
Source: Le Figaro
