Actor Who Tested Positive with Monkeypox Blasts US CDC for Slow Response

Matt Ford, an American actor and a proud openly gay man, has become the first person to publicly admit to having been infected with Monkeypox.

Matt shared that he got infected through skin-to-skin contact with a friend in L.A.

“On Friday, June 17, that quickly changed. I received a call from a friend in LA who informed me that he had tested positive for monkeypox and that I might have been exposed the weekend prior via skin-to-skin contact. Sure enough, I checked myself for spots and noticed a couple of lesions in the underwear zone,” Matt wrote an article for Buzzfeed, where he used to work.

In a video posted on Twitter, he chastised the CDC for its slow response to the virus, which has so far infected over 306 individuals in the country.