Jeff is not sure exactly when he became infected with monkeypox, but he suspects it may have been while he was visiting Berlin.“I was going on vacation for two weeks,” says the 35-year-old Baltimore resident. “I was going to be in the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and Germany.
Before I left, I’d been seeing a couple of stories pop up here and there on the Internet about monkeypox spreading through Europe.
So I asked my doctor if there was a way to get a vaccine before going. And she said, ‘Sorry, We don’t have smallpox vaccine in our little queer clinic in Baltimore yet.’ So I knew the virus existed but didn’t really know much more than that.“About nine days after I got home, I just had these terrible headaches,” he continues. “I went out to dinner with a friend and it was so bad I left kind of abruptly.
It was like, ‘I’ve got to get home.’ I had a bad fever that went up to 102 degrees, which is very high for anyone, but my temperature tends to run on the cooler side.
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