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minus-square@thervingi@lemmy.mllinkfedilink1•3 years agoWHO and CDC disagrees. Both are explicitly warning LGBT communities to be careful and that monkeypox risk is higher. https://www.who.int/news/item/25-05-2022-monkeypox--public-health-advice-for-gay--bisexual-and-other-men-who-have-sex-with-men https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/index.html German vaccine authority STIKO also classified “homosexual men who have multiple partners” as a risk group and is recommending the smallpox vaccine for them. https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/stiko-affenpocken-impfung-100.html The same article above says that almost all cases in Germany are homosexual men: “Alle bisher in Deutschland erfassten Fälle betreffen demnach Männer, die Sex mit Männern haben.”
minus-square@thervingi@lemmy.mllinkfedilink1•3 years agoThat it’s accidental that there are lots of infections among gay men. Theybare explicitly saying that gay men with multiple partners have higher risk’
WHO and CDC disagrees. Both are explicitly warning LGBT communities to be careful and that monkeypox risk is higher.
https://www.who.int/news/item/25-05-2022-monkeypox--public-health-advice-for-gay--bisexual-and-other-men-who-have-sex-with-men
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/index.html
German vaccine authority STIKO also classified “homosexual men who have multiple partners” as a risk group and is recommending the smallpox vaccine for them.
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/stiko-affenpocken-impfung-100.html
The same article above says that almost all cases in Germany are homosexual men:
“Alle bisher in Deutschland erfassten Fälle betreffen demnach Männer, die Sex mit Männern haben.”
Disagree on what?
That it’s accidental that there are lots of infections among gay men. Theybare explicitly saying that gay men with multiple partners have higher risk’