Plague No 7

[Paddy]

Confused by this. It's not an STD but it seems to be (only?) affecting men who have sex with men. Obviously having sex gives close skin to skin contact, but why aren't heterosexual couples being affected? Haven't found an explanation.

The anal passage in not designed for penetration sex. The walls of the anus are thin and delicate and susceptible to infection and is easily torn. Therefore, man on man anal sex is puts homosexuals at a higher risk. Heterosexual women will get infected via bisexual men usually via the anus.

[mudskipper]

Technically, it's not an STD. See:
Could Monkeypox Become an STD? (newsweek.com)



That also means that you can't guard against it by wearing a condom.

Confused by this. It's not an STD but it seems to be (only?) affecting men who have sex with men. Obviously having sex gives close skin to skin contact, but why aren't heterosexual couples being affected? Haven't found an explanation.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Apparently Marburg virus is out & about again in Ghana.

A proper plague.

[hobnob]

An STD, so it really is a pox.

Technically, it's not an STD. See:
Could Monkeypox Become an STD? (newsweek.com)

"An STD is one where intimate, sexual contact is critical to the transmission—where sexual acts are central to the transmission," Rowland Kao, the Sir Timothy O'Shea Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology and Data Science at the University of Edinburgh, told Newsweek via the Science Media Centre. "Some infections are transmitted by any type of close contact, of which sexual activity is one. Monkeypox is one of those—it's the close contact that matters, not the sexual activity itself."

That also means that you can't guard against it by wearing a condom.

[Fraidycat]

Here is another one:

Deadly Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever which kills 30% of people it infects by making them bleed from the eyes spreads to Spain as man is hospitalised with virus

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...gic-fever.html

[Mordac]

More wokeness. God help us if AtW catches man flu next. We’ll see a two year lockdown!

It will have to jump a couple of species first...

[MarillionFan]

More wokeness. God help us if AtW catches man flu next. We’ll see a two year lockdown!

[NotAllThere]

An STD, so it really is a pox.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Here you go:

https://www.crosswalk.com/special-co...evelation.html

[SueEllen]

Yep Monkey Pox is a public. health emergency of international concern
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...tional-concern

The global monkeypox outbreak has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) – the strongest call to action the agency can make.

It is the seventh time such a declaration has been made since 2009, the most recent being for Covid-19, which was given the same label by the WHO in 2020, and follows a meeting of a committee of experts on Thursday.