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[–] thervingi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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."

[–] VictimOfReligion@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] thervingi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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'