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One-In-Five Gay Men Who Got Monkeypox Had Sex With 10 Or More People Before Getting Infected, CDC Says
Dylan Housman
Healthcare Reporter
August 06, 2022 1:53 PM ET
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Nearly 20% of gay men who are contracting monkeypox in the U.S. reported having 10 or more partners in the three weeks before symptom onset, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report.
Virtually all monkeypox cases in the U.S. which have data available, 99%, are in men, the report also found, and 94% are in men who have sex with other men. The overwhelming majority had multiple sexual partners in the weeks leading up to their symptoms.
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1555655896541396993
In addition to the 19% of men who said they had 10 or more partners over the three weeks preceding symptoms, 40% reported having two to four partners and 14% reported five to nine partners. 38% reported having group sex at a festival, group sex event or sex party.
The data was pulled from a sample of 358 men who contracted monkeypox for which data was available on recent sexual behaviors. That represents about 12% of all confirmed monkeypox cases in the U.S. between May 17 and July 22, the time period which the report covers. Age and gender identity data was available for 41% of all cases nationwide.
Of the 334 cases for which HIV status was known, 41% of patients were HIV-positive. Only 8% of patients were hospitalized, and there were no reported deaths. There remain zero confirmed deaths caused by monkeypox in the United States or Europe in 2022.
more
https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/06/monkeypox-cdc-report-gay-men-lgbt-spread-infection-outbreak/
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:facepalm2:
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They make rabbits look chaste.
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"Come on everybody, we've got quilting to do!"
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Ewww.
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has there ever been anyone/thing more promiscuous than homosexual men?
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One-In-Five Gay Men Who Got Monkeypox Had Sex With 10 Or More People Before Getting Infected, CDC Says
Now HERE'S pointing-up a poster suggestion for next year's gay pride month.
Maybe Buttigieg could lobby Biden for government paid lapel pins.
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So 73% got m’pox through being promiscuous. In parallel, 40% of those of known status also have HIV, another disease frequently transmitted via promiscuous lifestyle.
I’m not obsessed with gays’ lifestyle choices, but how do people avoid learning from their and others’ deadly mistakes? For multiple obvious reasons, I would not have much cred in the gay community, but isn’t it long past time that quiet non-promiscuous gays, who may be the majority, told community crazies to cool it for a few weeks?!
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Now HERE'S pointing-up a poster suggestion for next year's gay pride month.
Maybe Buttigieg could lobby Biden for government paid lapel pins.
:silly:
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Evidence of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox virus
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01487-8/fulltext
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Evidence of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox virus
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01487-8/fulltext
Poor dog. This is a case of animal cruelty.
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Sex between men, not skin contact, is fueling monkeypox, new research suggests
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.
NBC News, Aug 17, 2022
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.
In recent weeks, a growing body of scientific evidence — including a trio of studies published in peer-reviewed journals, as well as reports from national, regional and global health authorities — has suggested that experts may have framed monkeypox’s typical transmission route precisely backward.
“A growing body of evidence supports that sexual transmission, particularly through seminal fluids, is occurring with the current MPX outbreak,” said Dr. Aniruddha Hazra, medical director of the University of Chicago Sexual Wellness Clinic, referring to monkeypox and to recent studies that found the virus in semen.
Consequently, scientists told NBC News that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public health authorities should update their monkeypox communication strategies to more strongly emphasize the centrality of intercourse among gay and bisexual men, who comprise nearly all U.S. cases, to the virus’ spread.
More: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/sex-men-not-skin-contact-fueling-monkeypox-new-research-suggests-rcna43484
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In addition to the 19% of men who said they had 10 or more partners over the three weeks preceding symptoms, 40% reported having two to four partners and 14% reported five to nine partners. 38% reported having group sex at a festival, group sex event or sex party.
Ah, so 38% of them passed out or otherwise lost count.