Monkeypox Virus Disease

• Monkeypox stigma can spread ‘like a virus,’ LGBTQ advocates say

  For some LGBTQ advocates, the spread of monkeypox raises the spectre of sexual stigmatization that saw gay and bisexual men scapegoated for the rise of the HIV-AIDS epidemic.

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  May 27, 2022
  
• Monkeypox could spread through sexual contact, but it’s not an STI: WHO adviser

  Close contact through sexual intercourse could be how monkeypox is spreading right now, but it's not a sexually-transmitted infection, a WHO adviser says.

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  May 23, 2022
  
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• What is known about monkeypox so far and should we be concerned?

  Global health officials have sounded the alarm over rising cases in Europe and elsewhere of monkeypox, a type of viral infection more common to west and central Africa.

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  May 22, 2022