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Is Monkey Pox a Sexually Transmitted Infection?
Medium ^ | Lao-Tzu Allan-Blitz, MD Chief Resident Physician, Global Health 
Brigham and Women’s Hosp Boston

Posted on 08/18/2022 3:47:12 PM PDT by NoLibZone

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Over the past several months, however, the current outbreak of human monkeypox has spread more rapidly and pervasively than any previous outbreak [1], and with mounting evidence that sexual transmission is the most common mode of transmission [3–6].

But whether human monkeypox constitutes a sexually transmitted infection, and why that would be important, are subject to ongoing debate.

What Constitutes a Sexually Transmitted Infection?

Sexually transmitted infections are typically defined as being caused by an infectious microorganism transmitted from one person to another though bodily fluids (blood, semen, vaginal fluids, rectal fluid, saliva) during oral, anal, or genital sex with an infected partner [7].

Thus, to classify as a sexually transmitted infection, human monkeypox virus must be predominantly transmitted via sexual contact though sexual fluids. Viral DNA of human monkeypox has been identified in seminal fluid [4,8,9], rectal swab specimens [8], tests of respiratory secretions [2,8,10], as well as from the blood [10].

A growing body of published reports suggest that transmission can and does occur via exposure to those sexual fluids, noting a temporal and anatomic association between sexual practices like anal and oral sex and the development of human monkeypox lesions.

Furthermore, there is a high prevalence of sexual risk behaviors among patients with human monkeypox, and frequent localization of the rash to the genitalia and rectum [3–6,8,11–13].


41 posted on 08/18/2022 6:48:41 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!!)
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To: NoLibZone

Doctors have been reporting monkeypox is an STD for some time, but homosexuals kept denying that and canceling doctors who did. I’m not sure why homosexuals have lost their fight against the truth.


42 posted on 08/18/2022 7:14:35 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NoLibZone

It is a fag disease so stay away from fags.

Even the 8 ball knows this.


43 posted on 08/18/2022 7:57:00 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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Is Monkey Pox a Sexually Transmitted Infection?

The faggots are getting it on their mouths, anuses, and genitals.

Whaddayathink?

44 posted on 08/18/2022 7:58:44 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m not sure ... But I do know what the bear does in the woods.


45 posted on 08/18/2022 8:00:53 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: TexasGator

The only true safe sex is between a husband and wife.


46 posted on 08/20/2022 5:52:58 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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47 posted on 08/21/2022 4:45:52 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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LOL!!


48 posted on 08/21/2022 4:50:56 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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