Many of the people infected in the current global outbreak identify as gay or bisexual, Dr. and European health officials identify a number of cases of monkeypox, an illness previously limited mostly to central and western Africa.
Science & Medicine What is monkeypox and where is it spreading? Those who were infected had come in contact with pet prairie dogs obtained from an animal distributor in suburban Chicago that had been housed near Gambian giant rats and dormice that came from Ghana. occurred in 2003, leading to 71 confirmed or suspected cases - mostly in Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois. The last major monkeypox outbreak in the U.S. And we’re actively working to try to connect these dots to identify how the cases are spreading between countries.”Įlsewhere in the U.S., there have been at least one confirmed case of monkeypox in Massachusetts and four presumptive cases - two in Utah, one in New York City and one in Florida - the CDC said Monday.
“Some have traveled to other countries in Europe and Canada, in late April and early May. “What’s different about what we’ve been seeing around the world in the past two weeks is that most cases do not have recent travel to Nigeria, or to another country where monkeypox would normally be found,” McQuiston said. Jennifer McQuiston, the CDC’s deputy director of its Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, told reporters in a briefing Monday. During the last five years, there’s been a resurgence of monkeypox in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, Capt. Health officials worldwide are concerned about an increase in the numbers of monkeypox cases because they’re occurring among people who haven’t recently traveled to western or central Africa. But the county health statement said that, “based on symptoms and preliminary testing, monkeypox confirmation is likely.” Kasirye said she did not have a timeline as to when those results might come back. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for confirmatory testing Monday. Preliminary testing was done at the county’s public health lab, and specimens were sent to the U.S. Kasirye said a healthcare provider informed public health officials about the suspected case on Saturday.
Olivia Kasirye said she was unable to provide the suspected patient’s gender or age but confirmed the person is a county resident.Ī statement from the Sacramento County Division of Public Health said the individual had “recently traveled to areas in Europe where cases of monkeypox have been confirmed.” The person, who recently traveled to Europe, is isolating at home and isn’t in contact with other people, health officials said Tuesday.ĭuring a briefing Tuesday morning, Sacramento County Public Health Officer Dr. Last year, NYU Press published the fascinating book Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men by the University of California, Riverside, gender and sexuality professor Jane Ward.California’s first suspected case of monkeypox has been publicly reported in Sacramento County. In it, Ward explored various subcultures in which what could be called “straight homosexual sex” abounds - not just in the ones you’d expect, like the military and fraternities, but also biker gangs and conservative suburban neighborhoods - to better understand how the participants in these encounters experienced and explained their attractions, identities, and rendezvous. But not all straight MSM have gotten the same level of research attention. One relatively neglected such group, argues the University of Oregon sociology doctoral student Tony Silva in a new paper in Gender & Society, is rural, white, straight men (well, neglected if you set aside Brokeback Mountain). Silva sought to find out more about these men, so he recruited 19 from men-for-men casual-encounters boards on Craigslist and interviewed them, for about an hour and a half each, about their sexual habits, lives, and senses of identity. All were from rural areas of Missouri, Illinois, Oregon, Washington, or Idaho, places known for their “social conservatism and predominant white populations.” The sample skewed a bit on the older side, with 14 of the 19 men in their 50s or older, and most identified exclusively as exclusively or mostly straight, with a few responses along the lines of “Straight but bi, but more straight.” Since this is a qualitative rather than a quantitative study, it’s important to recognize that the particular men recruited by Silva weren’t necessarily representative of, well, anything.