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   bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:   
      
   British health officials will start offering vaccines to some   
   men who are gay or bisexual or have sex with men, who are at the   
   highest risk of catching monkeypox, in an effort to curb the   
   biggest outbreak of the disease beyond Africa.   
      
   Britain’s Health Security Agency said in a statement on Tuesday   
   that doctors could consider vaccination for some men who are gay   
   or bisexual and men who have sex with men at the highest risk of   
   exposure, whom they defined as people with “multiple partners,   
   (who participate) in group sex or (attend) ‘sex on premises’   
   venues.”   
      
   “By expanding the vaccine offer to those at higher risk, we hope   
   to break chains of transmission and help contain the outbreak,”   
   said the Health Security Agency’s head of immunization, Dr. Mary   
   Ramsay.   
      
   Last month, a leading adviser to the World Health Organization   
   said that the monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa was likely spread   
   by sexual activity by men at raves in Spain and Belgium.   
      
   Vaccines have previously been available only for health workers   
   taking care of monkeypox patients or for cleaners disinfecting   
   areas contaminated by the virus. The vaccine was originally   
   developed for smallpox, a related disease, but is thought to be   
   about 85 percent effective against monkeypox.   
      
   To date, more than 99 percent of monkeypox cases in Britain are   
   among men, and the majority of those are in men who are gay,   
   bisexual or who have sex with men. Scientists warn that anyone   
   who is in close, physical contact with someone infected with   
   monkeypox or their clothing or bedsheets is at risk of the   
   disease, regardless of their sexual orientation.   
      
   There are currently 793 monkeypox cases in the U.K., out of more   
   than 2,100 cases in 42 countries globally. No deaths beyond   
   Africa have been reported.   
      
   Until last month, monkeypox had only caused sizable outbreaks in   
   central and west Africa; the continent has so far reported more   
   than 1,500 cases and 72 suspected deaths in a separate epidemic.   
   Vaccines have never been used in Africa to control monkeypox.   
      
   Last week, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros   
   Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the continued spread of monkeypox   
   in countries that haven’t previously seen the disease as   
   “unusual and concerning.”   
      
   Tedros is convening an expert meeting Thursday to decide if the   
   expanding monkeypox outbreak warrants being declared a global   
   emergency. That would give it the same designation as the Covid-   
   19 pandemic and the ongoing effort to eradicate polio.   
      
   Black and gay, you will pay.   
      
   https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/uk-offer-vaccines-gay-   
   bisexual-men-monkeypox-rcna34610   
      
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