Posted on 07/02/2024 11:12:38 AM PDT by algore
One of the 229 people diagnosed with mpox in Ireland during the recent outbreak had 75 different sexual partners in the 21 days before they developed symptoms of the disease, a new study has revealed.
The review of cases also found that 96.5 per cent of confirmed infections had been sexually transmitted. All but three of the infected patients were men, and 98.6 per cent identified as gay, bisexual or men who have sex with men (gbMSM).
The youngest patient was 16 and the oldest was 68, and more than one in four (28.3 per cent) were HIV positive, according to a new study conducted by experts with the HSE and Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HSPC).
One of the 229 people diagnosed with mpox in Ireland during the recent outbreak had 75 different sexual partners in the 21 days before they developed symptoms of the disease, a new study has revealed.
The review of cases also found that 96.5 per cent of confirmed infections had been sexually transmitted. All but three of the infected patients were men, and 98.6 per cent identified as gay, bisexual or men who have sex with men (gbMSM).
The youngest patient was 16 and the oldest was 68, and more than one in four (28.3 per cent) were HIV positive, according to a new study conducted by experts with the HSE and Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HSPC).
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Nearly half of the confirmed cases (46.8 per cent) involved patients who had been born in Ireland, while one in three were from Latin America, and just over 13 per cent were from elsewhere in Europe.
The paper examined monkeypox cases and the response in Ireland between May 2022 and May 2023. Monkeypox was renamed mpox by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in November 2022.
It was made a notifiable infectious disease on May 27, 2022, and a total of 229 confirmed cases were recorded in the country over the following 12-month period. Infections peaked in August 2022 and then rapidly declined.
Mpox, which is naturally found in some Central and West African countries, is characterised by a painful rash or mucosal lesions. It is spread through close contact with lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets, or contaminated materials such as bedding.
Most cases are mild, and only 20 of the infections reported in Ireland resulted in admission to hospital. No deaths occurred.
Reviewing the country’s response to the outbreak, the authors of the study noted that public health authorities undertook contact tracing and risk assessment for close contacts, developing a national database.
On May 27, 2022, the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) recommended that a modified smallpox vaccine be offered to high- and intermediate-risk contacts as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). By the end of May 2023, a total of 5,214 people had been fully vaccinated.
The study, which was published in the latest issue of the Irish Medical Journal, was partly attributable to effective risk communication, community engagement, as well as both natural and vaccine-related immunity.
While cases were generally mild in Ireland, “mpox had a substantial impact on those infected due to direct physical effects such as severe pain and the indirect mental and social effects of prolonged isolation”, the authors said.
They warned that travel-related cases of mpox remain a threat and recommended that all countries maintain testing capabilities and continue to act promptly “when needed”.
That’s almost 4 partners a day.
Those gas station rest rooms were really busy!
How the hell can he keep track? Does he keep a logbook?
Disgusting.
Lord have mercy. They are asking for some kind of STD, and perhaps several different types at the same time.
My thoughts exactly
I’m so confused. You need a computer to keep track of who does what with whom. Used to be you could keep track in your head and not that long ago you could get by with a paper and pencil.
Females play a role in helping males control their sexual appetites by not wanting sex all the time. However, homosexual males have no such limitor on their sexual appetite and they tend to gin each other up, because males are inherently competitive.
That’s why its called Monkey Pox.
How many children ?
Doesn’t Ireland have fewer people than NYC?
Gerald Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzgerald. Over and over and over…
Getting a sexual disease frees the homosexual from needing to exercise restraint because they now have nothing to lose.
And we’re being told that the “lifestyle” has nothing to do with this disease and others. SMH
Just like dogs in heat,
Not human behavior .
Sick and demented
Fagpox - there’s really only one way that jumps into your butt
Gay pride!
But this is not news. This is HTLV-1 in 1981. Many, myself included, wanted to quarantine the grand pervs, close the bathhouses, and thereby shut down the epidemic as did Snow by removing the culprit pump handles in Victorian England to stifle cholera epidemics.
In our times, Koop and Fauci were the invertebrates who were put to the test, and failed.
In the case of Monkeypox maybe Ireland will have a fullblown epidemic. Certainly the communist atheist fools deserve it.
Sorry, I don’t buy that answer. They just do not think of the consequences because the sex is too much of an overriding factor for them.
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