The Sex Parties That Spread Monkeypox

In recent days, new cases of monkey pox across the planet. Until now, this disease had been mainly present on the African continent.

Physicians across the planet have theorized that the virus has spread to other continents thanks to a series of massive parties in Europe.

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In Spain, where at least 30 cases of this type of smallpox have already been confirmed, most of those infected claim to have attended the same party in the Canary Islands. Three cases in Italy also correspond to people who participated in the event.

Dr. David Heymann, former director of emergencies at the World Health Organization, has been one of those who has supported this theory about the spread.

“We know that monkeypox can spread when there is close contact with the lesions of someone infected, and it seems that sexual contact has now amplified that transmission” the doctor explained to The Associated Press.

This would be a change from the behavior of the virus in West and Central Africa where transmission was mainly from animals such as wild primates and rodents.

Parties

The main focus in Europe would be two massive parties. The first was in the Canary Islands in Spain. It was a Gay Pride event attended by at least 80,000 people. The second party was in Belgium and contagions have spread throughout the continent from there.

In Germany there are already four cases linked to the same event. In the UK, four men who have had monkeypox identify as homosexual.

The latter led the UN to make a call to avoid homophobic reports about virus outbreaks. The United Nations AIDS agency said that although “a significant proportion” of cases have occurred in homosexual men, care must be taken not to fall into stigmatization.

”Experience shows that stigmatizing rhetoric can quickly deactivate the evidence-based response, fueling cycles of fear, driving people away from health services, hampering efforts to identify cases and encouraging ineffective and punitive measures” concluded Matthew Kavanagh, director of the United Nations AIDS agency.

Source: Elcomercio

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