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Not every skin rash in a returning adult male traveler is monkeypox
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Not every skin rash in a returning adult male traveler is monkeypox

Mazin Barry, Layan Akkielah, Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq and Ziad A. Memish
Travel medicine and infectious disease, Vol.50, pp.102432-102432
01/11/2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102432
PMID: 36075509

Abstract

Infectious Diseases Life Sciences & Biomedicine Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Science & Technology
In May 2022, several European countries including Spain reported cluster of monkeypox cases with no apparent travel to endemic areas. We report a suspected case of monkeypox in Saudi Arabia in a healthy 30-year-old man who returned from Spain and the Netherlands with fever and rash for six days duration during the same time period of the outbreak, he was suspected to have monkeypox but was ultimately diagnosed with chickenpox.
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