The sudden increase in cases in Europe is prompting health authorities to issue alerts, warning sexually active populations, particularly those who engage in high-risk activities, to be on the lookout for symptoms.
, are recommending smallpox vaccines for close contacts of those already infected, believing that a vaccine for the related virus given within four days of exposure can minimize monkeypox symptoms.But Dr. Daniel Lopez-Acuña, the former director of crisis management at the WHO, told Yahoo News that, “we will not need vaccinations of the general public,” since the disease will probably not affect large swathes of the population.
In fact, close physical contact of many sorts — including talking closely for a prolonged period and perhaps even dancing — could transmit the disease, which can spread through respiratory droplets as well as skin touching skin, as well as via clothing and bedding. The arms and torso of a patient with lesions due to monkeypox in Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997.
But if it isn’t halted soon, some experts, including Lopez-Acuña, believe monkeypox could make its way onto the roster of sexually transmitted infections, even though it’s not, by definition, an official sexually transmitteddisease. He shrugs off the “whole debate of whether it’s an STD or not” as a matter of semantics. “The fact is the dominant mechanism of transmission in these recent outbreaks in Europe has been sexual,” he added.
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