An especially severe form of monkeypox has been found by researchers to have a higher risk of severe complications and death among men with advanced HIV or AIDS, according to a study published in The Lancet.
According to the research team, monkeypox, or mpox, has had a considerable impact on men who have HIV and low CD4 cell counts. The current evidence also shows that all 96 monkeypox deaths have occurred only in people with HIV.
The researchers named the severe form of monkeypox “fulminant mpox,” and found that it caused large, decaying sores on the skin and genitals, and sometimes even the lungs. The study’s lead author, Oriol Mitja of Spain’s Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, shared graphic images of the severe disease on Twitter….