The Big Apple became the first community in America to report more than 100 cases of monkeypox in just a week after the Pride Month festivities. At the same time, the total number of infections in the country increased to 605.
A little more than a week after massive festivities in honor of the so-called LGBT Pride Month, New York became the first locality in America to report more than 100 cases of monkeypox. The city's health department said it had already recorded 119 infections with a tropical disease endemic to Africa. Moreover, more than half of them were detected in the last 7 days. This means that their cause was the close contacts of the participants of that very event in honor of the Month of Pride.
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More than 2 million people gathered on the streets of New York on the occasion of the holiday, and body contact is the main way monkeypox is spread. Moreover, most often it is fixed among the representatives of the LGBT community, who are prone to a quick change of sexual partners. Authorities in San Francisco have already linked several Pride Month nightclub parties to the insidious disease outbreak. To date, America has reported 605 cases of monkeypox, most in New York, California and Florida. No deaths have been recorded yet.
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Long before Pride Month began, experts warned people to avoid body and skin contact whenever possible, as monkeypox is spread through this Unfortunately, a sufficient amount of visual agitation was not placed on the streets of New York or other cities where mass gatherings of the population were noted. Just over 1,000 monkeypox vaccines have been distributed in New York City, for a city of over 8 million (READ MORE)