It's more likely that prolonged and intimate skin to skin contact is spreading the virus.Īnd the cluster in men who have sex with men may just be an unlucky accident - one of the unidentified cases may just happen to be gay or bisexual and perhaps had multiple partners. That doesn't seem likely - it hasn't been identified as a means of transmission in the past. Some people have also asked whether the virus is being sexually transmitted because most cases so far are in gay and bisexual men. There must be more cases below the radar that link those known to be infected.įor the disease to have spread so far, it's quite likely that the cases we know about are outnumbered by those currently undetected. Unlikely that monkeypox is being sexually transmitted Image: Monkeypox causes generally mild symptoms including a fever, muscle aches and pains, and a rash that blisters and then scabs over
