GP tells AusDoc about diagnosing Australia’s first monkeypox case

The patient originally presented to a GP clinic in Melbourne

“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.