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WHO recommends gay and bisexual men limit sexual partners – monkeypox
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WHO recommends gay and bisexual men limit sexual partners – monkeypox
WHO recommends gay and bisexual men limit sexual partners to reduce the spread of monkeypox
- Men who have sex with men are at the highest risk of infection right now from monkeypox, according to the WHO.
- About 99% of cases are among men, and at least 95% of those patients are men who have sex with other men, according to WHO official Rosamund Lewis.
- WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said men who have sex with men should consider limiting their sexual partners to lower their risk of infection and reduce the spread.
- The WHO chief called on media, public health authorities and government to fight stigma and discrimination, which he said will only fuel the outbreak.
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It took multiple trips to the ER for him to be treated for monkeypox
July 27, 2022
FORTIER: Kwong thinks he likely contracted monkeypox from a guy he hooked up with during New York Pride. That man did test positive. Despite Kwong’s quick turnaround on the antiviral, he still hasn’t tested positive. Dr. Chin-Hong says health workers may not have rubbed hard enough to get live cells.
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95% are gay -that’s indane.
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This is the biggest PR disaster for gays since the early 1980’s AIDS era
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Marjorie Taylor Greene urged people to laugh and mock the monkeypox “scam,” dismissing it as “a sexually transmitted disease” only threatening a specific group of people.
Greene: “People have to laugh at it, mock it, and reject it. It’s another scam.” pic.twitter.com/GB3UvcPZTy
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) July 26, 2022
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California declares a state of emergency over monkeypox outbreak, following New York and Illinois
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US Declares Monkeypox Outbreak a National Health Emergency
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The transmission of monkeypox is more likely to occur during anal intercourse and oral sex than during non-traumatic contact with healthy keratinized skin.
The first thing is to look at the most likely source of infection (i.e, where pathogen load is higher). A pathogen may be mainly transmitted from semen or blood (e.g., hepatitis, HIV, etc.) or from purulent lesions (e.g., syphilis, chancroid, herpes); MPXV mostly the latter.
Second, virus entry into a new host is dependent on a defective skin barrier or wound. As a result, the virus cannot penetrate the stratum corneum of normal, healthy skin, but easily penetrates superficial abrasions in the mucosa resulting from mild trauma during sex.
There are different levels of trauma and skin abrasions associated with different types of skin-to-skin contact, and in this regard, “sexual skin-to-skin contact” is more traumatic than other types of non-sexual skin-to-skin contact.
Though I am not an expert on risk communication, monkeypox-prevention messaging should possibly indicate sexual contact as the current primary mode of transmission.
However, it is good to remember that STIs such as syphilis or chancroid are commonly found in children (in the form of yaws or cutaneous chancroid) in the tropics where abrasions on the arms and legs are common. I would not rule bridging to new key populations in the future.
https://twitter.com/oriolmitja/status/1559605763395538945
The transmission of monkeypox is more likely to occur during anal intercourse and oral sex than during non-traumatic contact with healthy keratinized skin... (1/6)
— Oriol Mitjà (@oriolmitja) August 16, 2022
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About half of men who have sex with men reduced sexual activity due to monkeypox: survey
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