Hardly had a truce arrived to digest the coronavirus pandemic, a disease which has frozen the world for two years and which is still giving its last breaths, when the planet faces a new epidemic: monkey poxwhich, although it does not have the same impact as covid-19, alerted the WHO and a large number of infections are recorded in many countries.
A condition that since the first reported cases has stigmatized the homosexual population, since at first they were announced as the only source of contagion. However, research has revealed that monkeypox can be spread in other ways, some more daily than others. As is the case of a man who revealed that he had been infected after buying a scooter in Wallapop.
Yesterday I was diagnosed with monkey pox. No, I haven’t been to any sex parties as the WHO says, and I haven’t gotten a tattoo either… You’ll freak out when you find out how I caught it #MonkeyPox 🧵👇
— Mei Rito (@mei_rito) July 30, 2022
“Yesterday I was diagnosed with monkey pox. No, I haven’t been to any sex parties as the WHO says, nor have I had a tattoo… You’re going to freak out when you find out how I caught, “explains Mei Rito, the infected person in question, on his Twitter account. The user tells the story of his intention to buy the scooter from his contagion.
“Three weeks ago, I decided to park my bike because of the high temperatures and I contacted a guy on Wallapop who sold an electric scooter. We made an appointment to check on its condition”, says he said, adding that the transaction was “great” and that the seller “nice, he explained everything he needed to know about the scooter to me and let me try it for a quarter of an hour in the street”. to see if it really covered my needs”. “The decision made, we make the exchange and we say goodbye”, he adds.
The transaction was great. A pretty nice guy, he told me everything he needed to know about the scooter and let me try it out on the street for a quarter of an hour to see if it really suited my needs. Once the decision is made, we make the exchange and we say goodbye.
— Mei Rito (@mei_rito) July 30, 2022
Rito explains that a week later he started having a fever and, thinking it might be covid-19, he had “up to three PCR tests within the next 48 hours, all of which were negative”, so he started working from home.
Without feeling much better, two days ago I decided to return to the warehouse where I work and when I go to pick up the scooter I see that the pressure in the wheels has dropped, so I write to the seller to ask him how often I should fill them.
— Mei Rito (@mei_rito) July 30, 2022
“I don’t feel much better, two days ago I decided to go back to the warehouse where I work and when I go to get the scooter I see that the pressure in the wheels has gone down, so I write to the seller for ask him how often I have to fill them”he says, and after contacting the seller, he confesses that a few days ago he was diagnosed with monkey pox.
“The same day, I go to the emergency room and they do tests. Positive for monkeypox. The most likely contagion, from what they tell me, since my sex life hasn’t changed, is that the virus will be found on my mucous membranes after having impregnated me with it on the handles of the scooter”.
The same day, I go to the emergency room and they do tests. Positive for monkeypox. The most probable contagion, from what they tell me, since my sex life has not changed, is that the virus ended up on my mucous membranes after having impregnated me with it on the handles of the scooter.
— Mei Rito (@mei_rito) July 30, 2022
An example that even buying an item on a social network of second-hand products, it is possible to contract this disease. “I’m still hallucinating with the weirdness of the whole story. I urge caution, it’s not a gay disease as the WHO says.
The story was quick to go viral and already has thousands of comments and tens of thousands of retweets, from those showing concern to those claiming not to believe the story.