HIV testing crucial as Mpox spreads across South Africa

In light of more than a dozen severe Mpox cases in South Africa, experts do not foresee a widespread epidemic but are urging people to get tested for HIV. Mpox, caused by the monkeypox virus, results in flu-like symptoms and a skin infection with a rash, lesions, or blisters. Although typically not fatal, two of the 13 hospitalised patients in…

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