Though the possibility of sexual transmission can’t yet be ruled out, skin-to-skin contact can easily explain infection patterns, said infectious diseases expert Kartik Cherabuddi.It is spread through skin-to-skin contact.
There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that monkeypox is spread specifically through sex, or through gay sex in particular.As of May 27, about 300 cases have been reported in the US and Europe, and many countries have reported that nearly all of these cases have been in gay and bisexual men.This association recalled the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, when what we knew of the condition was limited to its impact on the queer community.When news broke that monkeypox appears to be disproportionately affecting gay and bisexual men, Jih-Fei Cheng, an associate professor at Scripps College, thought, “Here we go again.”.A section of skin tissue harvested from a monkey infected with monkeypox virus, seen at 50x magnification on day four of rash development in 1968.
