During a press briefing, World Health Organization (WHO) officials from the European region said they were investigating whether reports from Germany and Italy—which showed a small number of patients had monkeypox DNA in semen samples—mean the disease could be transmitted through sexual intercourse.

 

"It's something we are looking at, but it doesn't change our assessment of the current transmission route we are seeing at the moment, which is skin-to-skin contact, skin-to-mouth. That's what's driving the transmission," said Catherine Smallwood, PhD, the monkeypox incident manager at the WHO Regional Office for Europe.

 

Smallwood said because of this discovery of the virus in semen, patients who are fully recovered—meaning scabs have fallen off revealing healed skin—should still wear condoms for 12 weeks.

 

Currently Europe has 1,160 confirmed cases in 22 countries, many of which had never seen a monkeypox case until this year. The majority are in men who have sex with men.

 

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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/06/who-says-its-investigating-monkeypox-dna-semen

 

 

I find that hard to swallow.............

Sort of like, finding HIV in ejaculate I guess.

I wonder what the collection protocol is? ????

13 minutes ago, candide said:

I wonder what the collection protocol is? ????

First come first served?

They should introduce a ThaiPass for sailors ...... oh sorry, my mistake ..... no 'a'.