Monkeypox infections are 'so far almost exclusively occurring among men who have sex with men,” an epidemiologist at Brown University says.
, Dr. Agam Rao, a medical officer in the CDC’s Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, used the same words to characterize the general public’s risk.
The study authors reported that 95% of the cases were likely transmitted through sexual close contact. What’s more, their paper offers strong new evidence that anal sex itself, although not necessarily ejaculation, is a major source of transmission. People wait in line to receive the monkeypox vaccine at a vaccination site at the Bushwick Education Campus in New York on Sunday.Atypical to what has generally been seen in monkeypox cases in the 11 African nations where the virus has become endemic since it was first discovered in humans in 1970, people contracting monkeypox during this outbreak often have their initial development of lesions in the anorectal or genital area.
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