Expert Calls for All Young Homosexual Men to Get Monkeypox Vaccine

Italian infectious disease expert Matteo Bassetti has called for young gay men to be vaccinated against the monkeypox virus, arguing that the number of people contracting the disease could increase rapidly.

Professor Bassetti, who heads the infectious diseases department at the San Martino Hospital in Genoa, has called for young gay men to be vaccinated against the virus, claiming that while the virus has a relatively low mortality rate, symptoms are not mild.

“This is an infection that is by no means a mild one. When the numbers grow so violently, it can be serious, even fatal. The only way to protect yourself? Prevention and vaccinations will be distributed immediately to young people aged 18 to 45 gay men,” Bassetti said, Il Jonale Report.

According to the newspaper, only about 5,000 doses of monkeypox have been administered in Italy so far. The country has seen more than 700 confirmed cases, with Lombardy having the most cases.

Of those infected, only 10 were women, and 704 of the confirmed cases were men. The average age of those infected is about 37, but children as young as 14 have been reported to have contracted the virus.

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Francesco Vaia, director of Rome’s Spallanzani Hospital, said prior immunization against smallpox, a disease associated with monkeypox, may benefit people infected with the virus.

“Preliminary data suggest that more than 90 percent of people who were vaccinated against smallpox 40 years ago had antibodies, sometimes in large numbers, that reacted to monkeypox virus,” he said.

Vaia has previously pointed out that monkeypox may be via semen transfer Fragments of monkeypox virus reportedly found in semen of several Italian patients

“[H]The presence of infectious virus in semen is a factor that strongly tilts the balance in favor of the hypothesis that sexual transmission is one of the modes of transmission of this virus,” Vaia said.