Posted on 10/17/2024 9:49:08 AM PDT by fwdude
FRIDAY, Oct. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Infection with the mpox virus is five times more likely among gay and bisexual men who engage in unprotected anal sex as the receptive partner, a new analysis reveals.
The study dovetails with the release of a second report on clusters of mpox cases in California and Illinois of a strain of mpox that's resistant to treatment with the first-line drug tecovirimat.
Because not all viruses from mpox cases are genetically scrutinized, "these findings likely underestimate the prevalence of this newly recognized drug-resistant variant," noted a team led by Crystal Gigante. She's an investigator at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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The correct name is MonkeyPox. Don’t let them change it because it supposedly offended someone once.
Dread disease
“Unprotected Sex Boosts Mpox Danger for Gay Men as Drug-Resistant Strain Spreads:”
yep, and ice cream melts when you leave it out of the freezer ...
That was my immediate thought.
This is news? Who knew?
Gee, whoever would have thought that unprotected homosexual relations could pose a health risk??????
Just like most sane people realized...it’s a gay disease.
Golly. Who woulda thunk sticking your Willy in something as sanitary as a Honey Bucket at a Texas chili cook of could be hazardous to your health.
That's been true in general ever since the first antibiotics were invented.
It is amazing how a chaste lifestyle with middle class morality keeps so many problems away.
Gotta admit, that guy knew how to sell his henchmen on doing the dirty work for him, huh?
History be littered with psychos like that.
This what the rats call freedom
They’ve been walking Petri dishes since the beginning of their time.
Duuuude (or dudette)! Just SAYING the word monkey is rascist.... apparently
Do try to keep up! 😝
Just like they did with AIDS! Gotta spread that love to the masses to protect the , ah hem, “integrity and reputations” of the walking petries, doncha know.
Some idiot posted a hinky “article” saying Monkeypox is “caused” by Covid vaccines a couple or of days ago. Go figure.
> Health tip of the day: Don’t raw dog another dude’s starfish…
Yikes what a phrase. And until just now I thought that “raw dogging” was (don’t laugh) taking a plane flight and foregoing entertainment.
If they stop “screwtinizing” themselves there would be no or extremely low introduction of this virus into the human population.
Estimates vart widely, but there are probably more than 320,000 different viruses which can infect mammals. Which one or mutant will be the next deadly one to infect ALL sexually promiscuous people?
Going in the exit will get you kicked out of the movie house.
I love how they can't shake off the original name. It's always referred to as "Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox." I just have to laugh.
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