Altruism brought the 2022 mpox outbreak to a happy end

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Altruism brought the 2022 mpox outbreak to a happy end

1 March 2023

By Massimo Giola

Wednesday 1 March 2023, 12:20 AM

Soldiers in the Sacred Band of Thebes would rather die than abandon their lover on the battlefield [Dejan Krivokapic on Pixabay]

Last year, we saw the largest ever global outbreak of mpox. Sexual health specialist Massimo Giola looks at how it was stopped in its tracks

Key points, The 2022 mpox outbreak was almost exclusively among GBM and behaved like an STI. A combination of behavioural changes and early vaccine rollout bro, Pract Green w Pale Yellow

Infectious Disease

References

Allan-Blitz LT, Klausner JD. Current evidence demonstrates that monkeypox is a sexually transmitted infection. Sex Transm Dis 2023;50(2):63–65.
Allan-Blitz LT, Gandhi M, Adamson P, et al. A position statement on mpox as a sexually transmitted disease. Clin Infect Dis 2022:ciac960.
Our World in Data. Mpox (monkeypox). Accessed 24 January 2023.
Campbell GE, Johnson LW. Decision-making for HIV AIDS prevention: Altruism and the moral norm. J Homosex 2023:1–37.

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