Doctors Warn Stockholm Pride May Become Hotbed of Moneypox Infection in Absence of Countermeasures
“As far as I know, there is no information about this on our website because it is not an issue for our website,” he added.Since early May 2022, cases of monkeypox have been reported in countries where the disease is not endemic. Most confirmed cases have been reported in Europe and North America, rather than West or Central Africa, where the monkeypox virus is native. Worldwide, about 20,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported in 76 countries, including 18,800 in seventy countries that haven't reported it historically, the CDC said. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that 98 percent of monkeypox infections have been found in “men who have sex with men.”Viggo Andreasen, a mathematical epidemiologist and associate professor at Roskilde University in Denmark, emphasized that monkeypox generally has poor conditions for spreading, and that the spread of infection requires many very close contacts.In neighboring Norway, the Public Health Institute recommended that vulnerable groups reduce their number of sex partners to avoid the infection.However, campaigns targeted at homosexuals have already sparked a backlash. Among others, the AIDS Foundation Denmark complained this approach was tantamount to stigmatization, comparing it to the bias and prejudice gay men received in the 80s and 90s during the early stages of the HIV epidemic.“People have written that we should just isolate all homosexuals on a deserted island so that monkeypox doesn't spread, because it's only them who have it,” its Director General Lars Christian ?stergreen said.
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