The World Health Organization says that, historically, up to 11% of people with monkeypox have died from it, with the rate higher among children. Most patients recover from the disease on their own, without hospitalization, within two to four weeks of the onset of symptoms. Shared clothing or bedding can also result in transmission, as can, potentially, respiratory droplets. The virus, first discovered in 1958 in colonies of monkeys kept for research and in humans in 1970, is spread through close contact with an infected person, which includes sex but is not limited to it. “But the pathogen … can spread to all genders, to children, to adults and to adolescents.” “It’s true that certain homosexual men - for example, sex workers - are now more affected,” said Lauterbach, who had been criticized for earlier singling out men who have “anonymous sex” as being especially at risk. On Tuesday, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach tried to clear up misunderstandings about the outbreak, saying at a news conference in Berlin that it was not the start of a new pandemic and that monkeypox was not an ailment that afflicted only gay and bisexual men. German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach speaks about monkeypox at a news conference in Bremen on Tuesday. Some critics say the damage was already done. The bulletin put out by the Robert Koch Institute, Germany’s disease control center, has since been retracted, though the institute declined to state why. Britain has more than 100 confirmed cases. Much larger numbers of infections have cropped up in other European countries, including Spain, Portugal and Belgium. The country has recorded five monkeypox cases so far.
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Here in Germany, where the Nazi regime once sent homosexuals to concentration camps, officials say there are already comments online vilifying the gay community, with some calling the virus “gaypox.” A piece of graffiti painted inside a Berlin train read: “HIV and monkeypox = gift to gays.” Although health officials are keeping a close eye on the outbreak, the caseload is minuscule compared with the 528 million coronavirus infections of the COVID-19 pandemic.īut as reports of the disease grab headlines, along with suggestions that the spread could be linked to a huge gay pride event in Spain’s Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa, some LGBTQ people and organizations are bracing for a backlash. Nearly 200 confirmed monkeypox cases have been reported in more than 20 countries outside Africa, where the virus is mostly found - including the first likely case in California, in Sacramento County, earlier this week.