Friday, June 10, 2022

Lessons from AIDS crisis guide response to monkeypox outbreak

After the legalization of and equal rights for homosexuality in the second half of the 20th century in many Western countries, were we not supposed to believe that risky or unsafe sexual behavior would become a thing of the past? And that certain types of sex tourism would decline or dwindle?

No reason to panic though, only about 1,000 cases so far worldwide!

"Although the monkeypox strain now in circulation is infinitely milder than HIV — zero fatalities have been reported out of the more than 1,000 cases so far — it is another virus that emerged in sub-Saharan Africa and has popped up outside the continent largely in men who have sex with men. ..."

Lessons from AIDS crisis guide response to monkeypox outbreak - STAT

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