As a sex worker and adult film actor, Roc was relieved when he was among the first Spaniards to get a monkeypox vaccine.
He knew of several cases among men who have sex with men, which is the leading demographic for the disease, and feared he could be next.But it was already too late. Roc, the name he uses for work, had been infected by a client a few days before. He joined Spain’s steadily increasing count of monkeypox infections that has become the highest in Europe since the disease spread beyond Africa where it has been endemic for years.
The only country with more infections than Spain is the much larger United States, which has reported 7,100 cases. Spain has distributed 5,000 shots of the two-shot vaccine to health clinics and expects to receive 7,000 more from the EU in the coming days, its health ministry said. The lack of vaccines, which is far more severe in Africa than in Europe and the U.S., makes social public health policies key, experts say.
“The same thing happened with AIDS/HIV, when at one moment the group of men who had sex with men was the most affected , and that can become the path that this takes if we are not able to send a strong message to society,” García said.
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