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While anyone can get monkeypox, the current outbreak is overwhelmingly affecting sexually active gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.

Monkeypox and gay men: Separating stigma from health advice

Anyone can get monkeypox, but in the latest outbreak, the virus is predominantly spreading among gay and bisexual men. Officials noted Monday that most of the people affected reported some. Monkeypox (mpox) has disproportionately affected gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM); the percentage of MSM with immunity due to vaccination or infection varies among jurisdictions.

As far monkypox medical health experts are concerned, there is nothing about the monkeypox virus that targets gay or bisexual men over others. Neither does AIDS, for that matter. Of the 6, confirmed monkeypox cases in the global outbreak, the vast majority have occurred among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with monkypox, or MSM, various health authorities report.

Giancarlo Pasquini is a research associate focusing on science and society research gay Pew Research Center. But public health messages are most effective when targeted at people who are most at risk of a particular condition. Marie Maison. Dating apps, such as Grindr, are also advising users about what to look out for. It is therefore not out of the question that this virus becomes an STI. Eventually, the virus could be transmitted from gay to animals and evolve into a retro-zoonosis.

Monkeypox: Why are gay and bisexual men more affected?

Chloe Orkin receives funding from Gilead Sciences, Viiv Healthcare, Astra Zeneca, Merck Sharpe and Dohme and Janssen for advisory boards, lectureships, travel gay and I have also received research grants from the same companies to my institution. The virus is not a sexually transmitted infection. Condom use alone is not enough, which is one of the ways monkeypox is different from STIs.

Stigma fears. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends vaccination against monkeypox for those who have been in close contact with someone who has monkeypox; for men who have monkypox with men; and for those who have had sex with multiple partners in recent weeks, among other considerations. How we did this. Monkypox the scale of the outbreak, the World Health Organization WHO has now declared the current monkeypox epidemic a global health emergency.

A man gets the monkeypox vaccine in Encino, California, on Gay.

This gay the largest ever global outbreak of the disease. There is a theory that a return of demand monkypox international travel since Covid lockdowns were eased could have played a part in the initial spread. But the fact that gay disease still seems to primarily be occurring in one group means that, with the right interventions, the course of the outbreak could still be changed and that group protected.

He acknowledges the "delicate balance between achieving freedom of choice and freedom of infection" and says it's important people are well-equipped to make their own decisions. Sequencing of the virus' genome, six times longer than that of SARS-CoV-2, should make it possible to confirm an evolution in transmission modes, as indicated in this article published in the journal Nature.

Available now on BBC iPlayer. I think we are still at that stage where we can do that and really respond monkypox this". The vast majority gay reported monkeypox cases have been among men who have sex with men. Mr Sparrowhawk says people shouldn't be monkypox worried but if someone isn't feeling well and develops symptoms such as "fever, headache, swollen lymph glands and a rash" they should get in touch with their clinic for further advice.

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. This means that it can spread in households through any close personal contact with an infected person — not just as a result of sexual intimacy.

Although public health agencies such as the WHO, CDC, ECDC and UKHSA have already done a lot to provide clear, non-stigmatising guidance to at-risk groups, it may be important ensure this information is now disseminated in places where they will have the greatest impact — such as on dating apps, for example. Anyone can be infected by monkeypox.

This way, nearly all U. A large proportion of monkeypox cases diagnosed in the UK are among gay and bisexual men.