As public health expert Gregg Gonsalves wrote in the Nation, there are 550 cases and counting. The largest outbreaks have been traced to gay saunas and raves in Europe, as well as to a gay sauna in Montreal. alone, suggesting undetected global spread has been occurring for some time.
But, as Science reported, countries like Nigeria use the kinds of effective nonpharmaceutical interventions with MPX that the United States and Europe have largely eschewed with the novel coronavirus: putting the effort in to perform surveillance, helping affected people isolate, sequencing viruses to track spread and sharing their findings with others.īut MPX has been popping up all over the world the last couple of months, with at least two strains in the U.S. African countries do not have an ample supply of stockpiled pharmaceutical vaccines and antiretrovirals. And while it is endemic there in rodents, several African countries have developed excellent public health practices to minimize outbreaks among humans, which Europeans and North Americans have largely neglected. Monkeypox has largely been found in Western and Central Africa in the last few decades. Graduations, weddings, concerts and banquets are churning on indoors, as if 10,000 people a month aren’t still dying of COVID.īut more specifically, I was worried about monkeypox (MPX) making an appearance at IML, as I am concerned about it making its way through LGBTQ Pride events and circuit parties this month. Enragingly, the Society for Epidemiologic Research is also meeting in Chicago soon, despite the latest coronavirus surge. Of course, gay men coming and going from around the world for a conference isn’t any more or less worrisome than any large group gathering indoors. I found myself very concerned about the event in part because, even by the low standards of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, community spread of SARS-CoV-2 was “ high” in Chicago, causing uncontrollable community spread of that virus. (This year, the honor went to Gael Leung Chong Wo of Belgium.) IML is like the Miss America pageant, except those working the runway are clad in harnesses. Leather conference, a four-day-long affair where men from all over the world gathered to strut their stuff in leather gear, have lots of sex, and compete to be named International Mr. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.In Chicago last month, thousands of gay men gathered for the first time in three years for the annual International Mr. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater. You are about to enter a website that contains explicit material (pornography).