There have been over 170 diagnos of monkeypox the U.S. sce the outbreak began early May. The vast majory of s are among gay and bisexual men.
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INSI A CY’S STGGLE TO VACCATE GAY BLACK MEN FOR MONKEYPOX
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The CDC further reports that the outbreak has now seen more than 3, 500 nfirmed monkeypox s 44 vast majory of intified s of the vis have been among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men, particular those who have reported recent sexual enunters wh new or multiple partners, acrdg to the World Health Organizatn. Believg that the vis is largely transmtg through close, sk-to-sk ntact the ntext of sexual activy between men, epimlogists have sourced the vis’ sudn rise around the globe to major mid-sprg gathergs of gay men Spa and Belgium. Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagAcrdg to Amira Ros, a profsor of global health and epimlogy at Gee Mason Universy, the wir public should also not be left wh the false belief that monkeypox s will never transm substantially outsi of gay and bi men’s circl, as experts such as herself wily expect the vis to do.
Demand was so great that wh two hours of the sudn announcement that a sgle cy clic had begun offerg vaccatns, sr of gay men were already wag le Yorker Louis Jordan waed for four hours on Thursday for his vaccatn.
“The last time our untry ignored a new disease that was spreadg among gay men, didn’t turn out too well, ” the wrer said, alludg to the AIDS crisis the 1980s. Jog are muny-based nonprofs that have shepherd the gay muny through four s of the HIV epimic, like Chigo’s Howard Brown Health and the San Francis AIDS Foundatn.
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In addn, many of the major gay datg and hookup apps such as Grdr and Scff have sent monkeypox alerts to their members recent weeks. Benjam RyanIn an terview, Daskalakis highlighted gay and bisexual men’s rilience and sense of brotherhood the face of a crisis — quali he noted that the muny has honed through grapplg wh HIV.
He poted to the group of gay men at the center of an outbreak of post-vaccatn Covid-19 Provcetown, Massachetts, the summer of 2021. “Gay men are pecially ed to reportg thgs and beg open about their HIV stat, for example, ” Thomas said. McNeil flts the CDC for, as he se , overprrizg batg anti-gay stigma over the urgent need to munite ankly and precisely about the te ntours and drivers of the outbreak.