Posted on 07/22/2022 8:49:18 PM PDT by lightman
The first major peer-reviewed study of monkeypox infections has found that the virus is primarily being transmitted through the sexual activity of gay and bisexual men in the United States and around the world.
The Journal of New England Medicine on Thursday published a study that looked at monkeypox infection across 16 countries between April and June, when cases began to emerge in countries outside of Africa.
The study reported on 528 infections diagnosed between April 27 and June 24, of which 98 percent were in gay or bisexual men with a median age of 38. Of these cases, 95 percent of the infections were suspected to have been transmitted through sexual activity—41 percent also had HIV.
Disease experts and officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) don’t consider monkeypox a sexually transmitted infection but have always said it could be transmitted through intimate contact, such as sex. It can also be spread by close contact and even infected clothing and bedding.
Until this year, monkeypox virus infection in humans has been rare outside of Africa, where it is endemic but mostly spread from animals. But there are now more than 16,000 cases worldwide in countries that mostly have not historically had monkeypox, according to the CDC.
Most of the cases appear to be in North America and Western Europe, where some of the first cases were linked to major LGBT events in Spain and Belgium, considered ground zero for facilitating transmission of the virus.
The leading theory among disease experts is that the monkeypox virus was sexually transmitted at those events.
An uptick in recent U.S. cases suggests transmission occurred at the tail end of Pride Month in late June and early July, based on the study finding that incubation is between three and 20 days (usually seven days). Former Trump Health Officials Blame CDC
CDC officials were hesitant to recommend canceling marquee U.S. LGBT events, similar to the super spreading events in Europe that occurred the month prior.
LGBT event organizers were also treading carefully in the spring, wanting to avoid stigmatizing the LGBT community. U.S. health officials opted instead to boost targeted messaging to warn gay and bisexual men, who were deemed most at risk.
But officials should have done more, says Dr. Paul Alexander, a former Trump administration health official and researcher.
“All this needed was leadership saying no skin to skin contact, no anal sex, no sex, none for a few weeks and we would have helped this high risk group, but no, it’s political games and now the low-risk general heterosexual population is at risk especially from bisexual males,” Alexander wrote in a blog post.
The blog post also included a Twitter thread by a gay U.S. man recounting in graphic detail his experience with contracting monkeypox during an orgy in Palm Springs.
Alexander expressed concern that bisexual men could facilitate the spreading of the monkeypox virus outside of the LGBT community to heterosexuals. In fact, the CDC has said they know of eight cases in women and two new cases in children—one a toddler and the other an infant, BBC News reported.
“Heterosexuals could spread this if one partner is infected and there is rough abrasive sex that involves tearing of tissue,” Alexander added.
“This is not about being ‘gay,’ the virus is transmitted in bodily fluids and infected pustules and lesions in the infected person, through any tears on the skin or tissue e.g. rectal micro lesions etc,” he continued. “If heterosexuals engage in anal sex and one is infected with monkeypox or another [sexually transmitted disease], the other will get infected if there is tissue tearing.”
Although monkeypox infection generally clears up within a couple of weeks without the need for medical treatment, it has hospitalized some who experience severe anorectal pain, severe sore throats, and acute kidney injury.
Bisexual men (and there's no such thing) are the worst. They spread diseases to straight women. They're beneath contempt. If you're gonna be a gay dude, be a gay dude. It's 2022. You can be a gay man. Nobody is going to bother you. Keep that stuff in your club. Stay away from straight women.
Bisexual chicks are cool though.
God created us from the beginning “male and female for each other”.
Deviation from that plan is...well, devious—and degenerate and dangerous.
LOL Thanks, Yeah that landed on the wrong thread.
Bttt
Oh no, it’s far worse than posting on the wrong thread.
I completely confused threads and misinterpreted your very appropriate comments for this thread as being from a Ukraine war thread.
And yeah, I agree aggressive intervention in the context of a s disease is much more effective if done early.
I think I’d argue at the rate of spread it’s still early, even though almost 2000 cases exist in the US. It will be a lot harder later on.
We are banging the drum slowly or something...
Exactly.🤔
I thought it was determined that “monkeypox” was racist and that we were going to rename this pridepox.
Did that not happen?
Males, but men? Not necessarily.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2207323
Overall, 98% of the persons with infection were gay or bisexual men, and 75% were White. The median age was 38 years. .....A sexual history was recorded in 406 of 528 persons; among these 406 persons, the median number of sex partners in the previous 3 months was 5 partners.
Somebody is “banging” something but it is Not a drum!
Monkeypox is what you get when you monkey around, esp.with monkeys.
As Inspector Clouseau would say, “Don’t monkey around with my minkie”’!
Ryan White
So the next uber liberal that claims this isn’t being spread by promiscuous gay/bi sexual behavior needs to STHU.
CC
Bum, banging the bum.
CC
Hope Buttgiggy gets it from his “husband”.
Monkeypox prevention:
Sit down, keep mouth shut.
Buttmonkeypox...
By the Ides of March 2020 it was already too late.
PC is a dangerous and sometimes deadly luxury. Remember “hug a sick Chinaman” from those days? The NYC Health Dept. telling everyone Lunar New Year celebrations were OK?
CDC and the media still hocking the next scamdemic but steering away from the root cause for fear of accusations of phobia
Homophobe/sarc.
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