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WHO adviser: Monkeypox 'random event' spread by gay sex

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The outbreak of monkeypox in a dozen Western nations is a “random event” that appears to have been the result of transmission among homosexual and …
The outbreak of monkeypox in a dozen Western nations is a “random event” that appears to have been the result of transmission among homosexual and bisexual men at two raves held in Spain and Belgium, according to a World Health Organization adviser. Dr. David Heymann, the former head of the WHO’s emergencies department, told the Associated Press that monkeypox “can spread when there is close contact with the lesions of someone who is infected, and it looks like sexual contact has now amplified that transmission.”
The disease largely has not spread beyond Africa, where it is endemic in animals. In central and western Africa, people mainly are infected by animals such as wild rodents and primates. The WHO has recorded more than 90 cases of monkeypox in about a dozen countries, including the U.S., Canada, Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Australia and Israel. The disease typically presents with fluid-filled lesions on the face, hands and feet. President Biden commented Sunday to reporters in South Korea, “It is a concern in that if it were to spread it would be consequential.”
However, Dr. Robert Malone emphasized in an interview Saturday with “War Room” that the disease’s mortality rate in humans is less than 1%, and the cases in the West so far have been limited to men who have sex with men.

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