GP tells AusDoc about diagnosing Australia’s first monkeypox case

“I was taken aback — it felt like coming across the needle in a very big haystack.”
These are the words of the Melbourne GP who last month came across the first suspected case of monkeypox in Australia.
“It was quite a dramatic genital rash.
“There were several ulcers and quite swollen inguinal lymph nodes and my patient also mentioned that he had started to get these spots appearing throughout his body.