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> ...Queers should not be allowed near children.
> LGBTQIA+ monkeypox is a fucking gay disease, so stop lying about it.
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98% of the infected faggots are black males. Racist NBC implies
all of the faggots are white.
Over a dozen men who contracted monkeypox talked to NBC News
about their recovery and the lingering effects of the skin
lesion-causing virus.
During the four months of the monkeypox outbreak, health care
providers, researchers and an anxious public have scrambled to
determine how the virus transmits, how to prevent it and how the
infection plays out in the body.
Little attention has been paid to what comes after the infection
clears.
Following recovery from this skin lesion–causing virus, people
often find themselves waiting anxiously over the course of
months to see whether monkeypox will leave them with permanent
scarring. And in interviews with more than a dozen people who
have had the virus and as many health care providers and
researchers, NBC News learned that in some people, the lingering
scars are not only physical but psychological. Troublingly, it’s
also possible the virus could cause permanent damage to
sensitive internal tissues and give rise to persistent pain or
other onerous long-term symptoms.
“Just because you’re cleared and no longer contagious, it
doesn’t mean you’re totally back to normal,” said Matt Ford, 30,
a bicoastal actor who contracted the virus at the beginning of
the summer and hopes that his scarring, including pockmarks on
his face, will continue to dissipate. “It did a number on my
body, especially in more sensitive areas.”
Unfortunately, people looking to doctors or health agencies for
answers about what to expect post-pox are typically met with an
information vacuum. This is the result of the notorious dearth
of research conducted prior to the outbreak about a virus that
until this spring largely only circulated in western and central
Africa.
“I just want there to be more concrete information, but maybe
that’s asking too much,” said Brad, 33, a New York City area
resident who preferred to use only his first name to protect his
medical privacy.
In an emailed statement, the New York City health commissioner,
Dr. Ashwin Vasan, acknowledged this lack of health guidance,
saying, “It’s still early in the outbreak and the kinds of long-
term studies needed to understand these issues better have not
been completed yet. We continue to learn from what people who’ve
experienced infection and recovery are reporting.”
Since the unprecedented global outbreak was first detected by
health authorities in mid-May, 65,415 cases have been diagnosed
worldwide, 24,846 of them in the United States, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention reports. While the weekly case
count both nationally and worldwide has declined in recent
weeks, raising hopes that the outbreak might be brought under
control, concerns remain that at least a fraction of those who
have had the virus might suffer long-term impacts of the
infection.
Cosmetic concerns
For gay men, who comprise the overwhelming share of global
monkeypox cases and among whom the competitiveness to look good
is famously Olympian, worry over sustaining noticeable scarring
in the wake of the infection can be particularly taxing.
“Especially for people who already have body dysmorphia or are
hypersensitive to how others see them, there is this
hypervigilance” of such cosmetic effects, said Preston Wholly,
managing clinical director of behavioral health services at the
LGBTQ-focused nonprofit health care provider Harlem United in
New York City.
The marks are also signals of an infection that because it
largely transmits through sex between men, can be highly
stigmatized.
“I think it’s important to be aware of the effect of stigma
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