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For now, experts are divided on whether we should give much weight to the fact that most of the monkeypox patients diagnosed outside Africa recently have been men. It's still early days for disease investigators, who are tracking down exactly how genetically related these monkeypox cases may be, and how they might be spreading from person to person.
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This doesn't mean we are dealing with a new brand of monkeypox - one that only infects males, or one that is sexually transmitted between men who have sex with men. They haven't all traveled to countries where the disease is endemic, like the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, or Cameroon, nor have they all been in contact with people who recently traveled to the parts of west and central Africa where animals like rodents harbor this virus.īut one thing that public health experts have noticed is that most of the infected patients - in fact all but one of the patients whose sex has been revealed so far - are men. One of the troubling things that disease experts have noticed with this outbreak is that the patients don't all have a clear link to one another. Other monkeypox cases have recently been confirmed scattered across the US, Australia, Spain, Italy, Germany, Portugal, and Sweden - the list of countries grows by the day.
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The first was diagnosed in the UK on May 7, and the number of cases that have been confirmed in that country has quickly doubled in the past two days, from nine infections on May 18 to 20 infections on May 20. This month, more than 140 confirmed and suspected cases have been detected in a dozen countries across Europe, North America, and Oceania. Monkeypox is spreading, and it is spreading much faster than it usually does.