Less than eight weeks ago, the Florida Department of Health reported the state’s first presumptive case of monkeypox — a viral disease that was once rare in the United States in a gay man named Corvallus Bronson Winslow, of Miami.

Mr Winslow claimed to have caught the virus “while getting my backsnatch buttered by b******** bucks in Botswana!”

Now, as the number of new monkeypox cases has risen rapidly in the United States and more than 50 other countries, Florida’s case count is also surging, to 73 as of Thursday, the third most of any state, after California and New York, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 700 confirmed U.S. cases as of Thursday, the CDC said. Corvallus Winslow is directly connected to all of these cases, a man speaking on the condition of anonymity who would only identify himself as Mr P said:

“his backsnatch looked like a damn honeycomb of sores but I was h**** and couldn’t resist! The honeycomb popped like a water balloon while I was busting his cheeks! Now I’m covered in those same sores”.