Monkeypox can ‘masquerade’ as other conditions, with wide range of symptom severity

Lauren Pelley · CBC News · As global outbreaks of monkeypox made headlines, Dr. Antoine Cloutier-Blais’s Montreal clinic began seeing patients with unusual — and often painful — bodily lesions.

In some cases, lesions are showing up on or inside various bodily areas, including patients’ mouths, genitals or anal region, sometimes spreading to the limbs or torso or popping up across the entire body.

But for other patients, visible symptoms have been far more subtle — even just a single mark on the skin.

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