Sex between men, not skin contact, is fueling monkeypox, new research suggests

NBC ^ | Aug. 17, 2022 | Benjamin Ryan

[Salman]

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.

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[Salman]

Significantly, this is a "mainstream" source, so it looks like a shift in the official narrative.

I suppose TPTB decided they needed really to do something about it.

[arizonarick]

Don’t forget the dog!

[A_perfect_lady]

Beat me to it.

[SaveFerris]

NBC finally admitting what was known all along?

Duh

[Steely Tom]

But it could happen to anyone, anywhere. Just because you’re living what you think is a “safe lifestyle,” you’re not immune to the disease that is presently called “monkeypox” but will soon be called by some other name, when the deep state figures an innocuous euphemism for it.

[DEPcom]

“Don’t forget the dog!”

Also the Children...

[SaxxonWoods]

You’d think somebody would tell them.

[kiryandil]

Donkeypox

[dynachrome]

Hmmm. Who gave the orders to change the narrative? I doubt anyone is honest at nbc.

[moovova]

Well that’s racist...or homologous...or homogenous..

Or something.

[Jeff Chandler]

[Paladin2]

The Fey Wray and the Meritless Garland are not f’n each other daily?

[Jeff Chandler]

soon be called by some other name

Okay, I'll go first.

Monkey Business Pox

[Huskrrrr]

Fashionably late to the party, as usual.

[max americana]

Simply put, if you ain’t a fag, it’s all good. Just don’t go Richard Gere -gerbil on yourself, and you wont be affected by this nonsense.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

It certainly seems that the decades of anti-viral drugs used by homosexual men to keep AIDS in check is showing them to be very vulnerable to monkeypox and other viruses.

[EEGator]

That’s what a chick just over the border due south of Lackland AFB gets...

[tflabo]

“Don’t forget the dog!”

And the cheeky monkey too.

[spacejunkie2001]

makes me sick to think about the children that are turning up positive

[EvilCapitalist]

Eeeewwww....