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Monkeypox: Why are gay and attracted to both genders men more affected?
Regardless of sexual orientation, the main factor of propagation remains the multiplicity of sexual partners.
As of July 26, Monkeypox has not caused any deaths in Europe, but the disease is gaining ground. With nearly 17, cases worldwide, World Health Organization (WHO) director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus triggered the extreme level of alert on monkeypox on July
Santé Publique France (SPF), France's public health agency, has recorded 1, patients in the country since May. 3% of those have been hospitalized. This epidemic differs from the waves observed so far in a dozen African countries, notably in the patients' profile: almost exclusively men, most of them males who have sex with males, known as "MSM" in the scientific community.
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The question is why MSM are overrepresented among the affected. First, it is important to keep in brain that the SPF figures are still incomplete. Screening is just starting and complicated by the
Monkeypox: What does sex include to do with it?
The outbreak of monkeypox has been detected in 95 countries, and the virus has infected more than 15, Americans. Although the vast majority of cases have been reported in men who have sex with men, the monkeypox virus can be transmitted through close contact that does not involve sex.
Recently, Stanford Medicine researchers published a case report in Emerging Infectious Diseases of a man who contracted monkeypox at an outdoor festival where he hadn't engaged in sexual activities.
According to the report, the man had recently attended several crowded outdoor events where he had shut, skin-to-skin contact, such as dancing, with multiple people over the course of four days. He didn't notice any skin lesions or anyone sick among those with whom in came into contact. Two weeks later, he began to develop skin lesions on his hands, lip, torso and back. He reported no sexual contact in the three months prior to symptoms.
What does this case tell us about monkeypox transmission? Is it cause for alarm? (No.)
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Monkeypox is spreading among gay men worldwide
The World Health Organization (WHO) has now confirmed nearly cases of monkeypox in over a dozen countries, with the largest number in the UK. While most cases so far are among gay and bisexual men, health officials emphasise that anyone can compress the virus through close personal contact.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) reported the first case in the current outbreak on 7 May in a man who had recently travelled to Nigeria, where monkeypox is endemic. This was soon followed by two additional cases who distribute a household and four cases among gay and double attraction men, all of whom appear to have contracted the virus locally. As of 23 May, UKHSA has reported 70 confirmed cases in England and one in Scotland.
The latest WHO update on 21 May listed 92 confirmed and 28 suspected cases. After the UK, the most cases have been reported in Spain and Portugal, with smaller numbers in several other European countries, Canada, the United States and Australia. An informal tally by , compiled from various sources, listed more than confirmed o
Psychosocial impact and stigma on men who have sex with men due to monkeypox
1 Introduction
Monkeypox, now referred to as Mpox, is an infectious disease caused by the Mpox virus (MPXV), a double-stranded DNA virus belonging to the Orthopoxvirus genus, which includes the variola virus responsible for smallpox (1). The disease was first identified in in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and was initially considered a zoonotic infection with limited human-to-human transmission. Historically, Mpox was confined to rural, rainforest regions of central and western Africa, primarily transmitted to humans through direct contact with the blood, bodily fluids, or lesions of infected animals, particularly rodents and primates. However, in recent years, there has been an increase in Mpox cases outside Africa, raising concerns about its potential to become a global health threat. The emergence of Mpox outside endemic regions reflects broader changes in global health patterns influenced by factors such as increased human-animal interactions, climate change, and global travel (2&#x;4).
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