He says he believes he caught MPV by kissing someone.
“I probably made out with several people at the bar,” he says, “and a lot of hugging went on.”.Planck says he intially thought he had contracted COVID when the infection began.
“But that [coronavirus] test kept coming back negative,” he says.
In his genital area, the most painful lesions, he says, kept him up at night, unable to get comfortable because of their excruciating pain.
We have a vaccine that’s 85 percent effective and an antiviral that has been shown to be safe in humans and efficacious in animal models of orthopox virus infections,” Planck says.
So, after speaking with some friends, he says he decided to come forward and share his experience to take the shame out of MPV