Sex between men, not skin contact, is fueling monkeypox, new research suggests

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Posted: 8/17/2022 7:49:14 PM EDT

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The claim that skin-to-skin contact during sex between men, not intercourse itself, drives most monkeypox transmission is likely backward, a growing group of experts say

Since the outset of the global monkeypox outbreak in May, public health and infectious disease experts have told the public that the virus is largely transmitting through skin-to-skin contact, in particular during sex between men.

Now, however, an expanding cadre of experts has come to believe that sex between men itself — both anal as well as oral intercourse — is likely the main driver of global monkeypox transmission. The skin contact that comes with sex, these experts say, is probably much less of a risk factor.

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In a study of 197 monkeypox cases in London men published July 28 in The BMJ, the British Medical Association’s journal, researchers found that 56% had lesions in the genital area and 42% had them in their anorectal regions. And in a study published July 21 in The New England Journal of Medicine, a global team of researchers pooled 538 monkeypox cases — also all in men — from around the world and found that 73% had lesions in the genital or anorectal areas.

Third, researchers have found monkeypox in semen and have been able to culture that virus, which suggests it could transmit through ejaculation. Also, the authors of two recent studies have detected the virus after taking anal swabs among men who had monkeypox but were asymptomatic, which indicates that the virus might transmit from the anorectal area during anal intercourse before people develop symptoms. Experts say more research is needed on both these fronts.

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Monkeypox is more likely to transmit through oral or anal sex than through contact with external skin, which would need some sort of defect, such as a wound, to allow entry of the virus, Mitjà said.

Dr. Dimie Ogoina, a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at Niger Delta University in Nigeria, acknowledged Mitjà’s research supporting the connection between types of sex between men and monkeypox outcomes.

“This is not to say that females or heterosexuals are not at risk of monkeypox or that the female genital mucosa is not prone to abrasions during sexual activity,” Ogoina said.

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Monkeypox has been diagnosed in 38,019 people in 93 countries during this current global outbreak, according to the CDC. And the WHO reports that among cases with proper data, 97% have been diagnosed in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. The consistency with which cases have remained so overwhelmingly in this demographic, some experts argue, is further evidence that the virus transmits among them through a behavior that is exclusive to the group — anal intercourse and oral sex between men.

Specifically, the authors of The New England Journal of Medicine paper estimated that just 0.8% of the cases they analyzed were due to nonsexual close contact and 0.6% were due to household contact. By contrast, 95% of these cases were likely acquired during sex between men. The authors of the Lancet paper estimated that 3% of the cases they analyzed transmitted through nonsexual household contact.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/sex-men-not-skin-contact-fueling-monkeypox-new-research-suggests-rcna43484

Posted: 8/17/2022 7:51:22 PM EDT

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But don’t you dare call it a gay disease

Posted: 8/17/2022 7:53:44 PM EDT

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Pride Pox

Posted: 8/17/2022 7:53:57 PM EDT

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Shouldn't they be quarantined??? 2 weeks???

Posted: 8/17/2022 7:54:29 PM EDT

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Noooooooooo waaaaaaaaay!?!

Posted: 8/17/2022 7:54:48 PM EDT

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Who’d have thought sticking dicks in butts would lead to nasty things?

Posted: 8/17/2022 7:54:55 PM EDT

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We know. That's how the kids and dogs are getting it too.

Posted: 8/17/2022 7:55:04 PM EDT

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Chimples!

Posted: 8/17/2022 7:55:08 PM EDT

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Give yourself a round of applause guys. We were all on the forefront of medical science.

Posted: 8/17/2022 7:55:41 PM EDT

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Or not. Everyone with 2 or more brain cells knew exactly what was fueling the outbreak.

Posted: 8/17/2022 7:56:53 PM EDT

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Back to those two toddlers who got monkeypox.

Posted: 8/17/2022 7:57:34 PM EDT

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But yeah, the local paper here just reported that we have 100 confirmed cases of pride pox.
99 cases are 'men'.

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:00:30 PM EDT

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Graphic needs to be updated to include wearing a mask to prevent contracting monkeypox

Unless there's a hole cut in the middle, can't suck a dick and catch the pox if one is wearing a mask

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:02:21 PM EDT

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Braking news

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This is where on of you slick bastards post the tarmac meme...

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Guessing the new plague doctors are wearing gimp masks then?

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:04:54 PM EDT

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Holy Shit!

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:06:04 PM EDT

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I can't believe people are so fucking lazy they can't be bothered to ~~wear a mask when they are out~~ stop butt fucking. These people are so selfish they aren't thinking of other people's safety when they ~~breath all over~~ butt fuck.

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:06:42 PM EDT

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Right after the dog

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:07:02 PM EDT

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And the dog.

Kharn

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:08:58 PM EDT

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Just Mother Nature trying to hit the reset button once again

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:10:31 PM EDT

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Can’t stop buttfucking

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:10:45 PM EDT

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Gonna be that guy-

Why doesn’t this sort of thing happen in the lesbian community?

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:11:52 PM EDT

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I wonder what the correlation between gay men with the covid vaccine and with monkeypox is. Or is this just a mutation of genital warts kinda thing?

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:11:58 PM EDT

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Yup.

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:13:31 PM EDT

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...gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men...

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The language used - and other men who have sex with men - as if the two previous descriptions didn't cover everything. Sheesh!

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:14:12 PM EDT

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I’ll keep an eye out for my Pulitzer in the mail.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11119463/Pictured-Monkeypox-patient-nose-started-rot.html

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:15:29 PM EDT

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“This is not to say that females or heterosexuals are not at risk of monkeypox or that the female genital mucosa is not prone to abrasions during sexual activity,” Ogoina said.

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For the small number of heterosexuals who may happen by. Despite the huge gay focus of the thread. Not judging.

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:16:27 PM EDT

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looks like he was gettin at it!

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:17:20 PM EDT

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New meaning to brown nosing.

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:17:21 PM EDT

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That dude is a walking petri dish with a literal murder boner.

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:19:15 PM EDT

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I mean, I wouldn't go making an accusation on that alone but I'd sure as hell have suspicions that most reasonable people would have.

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:19:37 PM EDT

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Fire up the wood chipper.

Posted: 8/17/2022 8:19:54 PM EDT

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"This is not to say that females or heterosexuals are not at risk of monkeypox or that the female genital mucosa is not prone to abrasions during sexual activity," Ogoina said.

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For the small number of heterosexuals who may happen by. Despite the huge gay focus of the thread. Not judging.

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Copium.