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From: https://tinyurl.com/yc8zw7b4 (theepochtimes.com)

Linked article: https://tinyurl.com/2p838sh2 (nbcnews.com)

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Growing Evidence Indicates Sex Between Men Is Fueling Monkeypox

By Katabella Roberts
August 19, 2022
Updated: August 19, 2022

Growing scientific evidence suggests that Monkeypox is being spread via
sexual intercourse between men, as opposed to skin-to-skin contact as
stated by public health officials.

According to a report by NBC News, a string of scientific studies and
reports from health authorities across the globe in recent weeks indicate
that the narrative of public health experts may be "precisely backward."

"A growing body of evidence supports that sexual transmission,
particularly through seminal fluids, is occurring with the current MPX
outbreak," Dr. Aniruddha Hazra, medical director of the University of
Chicago Sexual Wellness Clinic, told NBC.

NBC cited a Medium essay by Dr. Lao-Tzu Allan-Blitz, a resident physician
in global health at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, in which he
writes that there is "mounting evidence that sexual transmission is the
most common mode of transmission" across the United States and Europe.

The essay noted that monkeypox, which up until now was endemic to Central
and West Africa, is largely being transmitted through anal and oral
intercourse between men.

Allan-Blitz told NBC: "It looks very clear to us that this is an infection
that is transmitting sexually the vast majority of the time."

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) men who have sex with men
are still those who are overwhelmingly affected by monkeypox, with 96.9
percent of those who have contracted the virus identifying as men who have
sex with men.

Transmission Through Sexual Activity

More than three quarters, approximately 76.5 percent, of global monkeypox
cases are among men 18 to 44 years old.

Overall as of Aug. 17, there have been a total of 37,736
laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox, and 179 probable cases,
including 12 deaths, reported to WHO.

NBC also cited a study (pdf) published July 28 in the British Medical
Association's journal, which found that among the 197 monkeypox cases
examined in London men, 56 percent had lesions in the genital area and 42
percent had them in their anorectal regions.

A separate study published July 21 in The New England Journal of Medicine,
found that among the 528 infections diagnosed between April 27 and June
24, 2022, 98 percent were in gay or bisexual men.

"Transmission was suspected to have occurred through sexual activity in 95
percent of the persons with infection," the study states, and 73 percent
had anogenital lesions.

Elsewhere, a study published in the Lancet on Aug. 8 examined 181
monkeypox cases in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain, of which 92 percent of
patients identified as gay men, bisexual men, or other men who have sex
with men. That study found that "participants reporting anal-receptive sex
were more likely than others to have early systemic symptoms before
developing skin lesions."

"One explanation is that anal sex might damage the epithelium [a very thin
layer of tissue] and enable blood entry, allowing greater viraemia at an
early stage when local lesions have not yet developed," researchers wrote.

As a result of the growing evidence which supports that Monkeypox is
predominantly being spread through sexual intercourse between
men, scientists told NBC that the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) and other public health authorities need to update their
communication strategies regarding the virus to "more strongly emphasize
the centrality of intercourse among gay and bisexual men."

Epoch Times PhotoEpoch Times Photo People wait in line to recieve the
Monkeypox vaccine before the opening of a new mass vaccination site at the
Bushwick Education Campus in Brooklyn, New York City, on July 17, 2022.
(Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)

WHO, CDC Narrative

Currently, the CDC and the WHO state that Monkeypox can be transmitted via
"close, personal, often skin-to-skin contact" which includes contact with
fabrics such as clothing or bedding that have been used by someone with
the virus, as well as contact with respiratory secretions.

Despite the mounting evidence, the WHO says it's too early yet to know
if the virus is predominantly transmitted through intercourse.

"Completely reading the situation as uniquely due to anal or oral sex is
highly likely to be overreach," Dr. Rosamund Lewis, technical lead for
monkeypox at the World Health Organization, told NBC News. "The
correlation may appear to be strong, but that does not explain the whole
picture of disease caused by this virus. So we need to keep an open mind."

The latest report comes amid a shortage of Monkeypox vaccines amid a surge
in cases.

On Thursday, vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic warned it was no longer certain
it would be able to meet demand as cases of the virus continue to surge
across the globe, even with an upgrade to its existing manufacturing site
in Denmark.

As a result, the Denmark-headquartered company is now looking into
transferring its technology to a third-party producer in the United States
in an effort to enable bulk production.
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