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

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Mazin Barry, King Saud University; Layan Akkielah, King Saud University; Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare; Ziad Memish, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2022-11-01
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102432
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
• Volume: 50
• Start Page: 102432
• End Page: 102432
• Keywords: Humans; Disease Outbreaks; Male; Travel; Chickenpox; Saudi Arabia; Monkeypox; Adult; VZV; Traveler; Exanthema; Spain
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Public Health; Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery

Abstract

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.