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(THE NEW AMERICAN) – Is the monkeypox scare narrative already beginning to crumble? While the prevailing opinion from public health officials on monkeypox (MPX) has thus far been that the disease is primarily being transmitted by skin-to-skin contact, a growing number of experts now believe the outbreak is, in fact, chiefly driven by man-on-man sex itself — both anal and oral sex.
Even the skin contact that is involved in sex, the experts say, is far less a factor than the sex itself. This new opinion is based on an increasing pool of evidence that includes three studies published in peer-reviewed journals (see here, here, and here), as well as widely circulated reports.
The ramifications of the evidence are immense, as knowledge of the disease’s transmission forms the basis for developing guidelines and policies to counteract its spread.
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