Why is monkeypox linked to gay men

Survey respondents who describe themselves as gay or bisexual men are especially concerned about the monkeypox outbreak and offer a more negative appraisal of the U. Men who describe themselves as gay or bisexual are also more likely to say they have received or intend to get a monkeypox vaccine.

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Symptoms are also accompanied by a rash that appears in blisters on the face, genitals, the chest and back, and on the hands and feet. Some people also experience very painful sores in the mouth or inside the bottom. For most people, the disease usually resolves within two to three weeks.

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It can also be transmitted by respiratory droplets, at short distances and during prolonged face-to-face exposure. Yannick Simonin, a virologist and lecturer specializing in emerging viruses at the University of Montpellier. He called for "not stigmatizing the homosexual community.

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Monkeypox does not only concern this community, even though cases are currently over-represented in it. Simonin said. The outbreaks in Spain and Belgium could thus be at the origin of the very rapid spread of the virus within the gay community. A hundred positive cases were detected after the Gay Pride Festival at the Yumbo de Maspalomas, in the Canary Islands, while another outbreak occurred at the same time at the Darklands Festival, in Belgium, in early May.