For fear of stigma, they began discussing the outbreak in cautious, oblique, academic ways, as in this recent article in the Annals of Internal Medicine by the C.D.C.’s top experts on MSM sex.Īctually, at the moment it looks as if only some limited subgroups of gay men are at the highest risk. It was only one month ago, on May 16, that Spain, Portugal and Britain had a mere handful of cases now it’s an incipient pandemic.īut when public health officials realized that most victims were gay males, they got a case of the vapors. The disease is not spreading as fast as a respiratory virus like Covid can, but for a sexually transmitted pathogen, it’s a jackrabbit. On Thursday, the World Health Organization will convene a panel of experts to decide whether to declare the epidemic a PHEIC: a “public health emergency of international concern.” and New York City’s outbreak expanding fast, the news media is finally taking monkeypox seriously. With over 2,600 cases in 47 countries, over 100 in the U.S.
