Monkeypox Spread No Reason To Shun Pride Parades: WHO
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Health officials have stressed the disease can be transmitted to anyone who has close contact, such as skin to skin, with an infected person.
An unusual spread of monkeypox does not mean people should shun LGBTQ pride parades this summer, a World Health Organization expert said on Monday, adding that it was important to show support.
The usually mild illness that can cause flu-like symptoms and skin lesions has disproportionately affected men who have sex with men. Health officials have stressed the disease can be transmitted to anyone who has close contact, such as skin to skin, with an infected person.
"It's important that people who want to go out and celebrate gay pride, LGBTQ pride, to continue to go and plan to do so," Andy Seale, strategies adviser at WHO's department of sexually transmitted infections programmes, said at a WHO social media briefing.
"Most of these events - the official events - are outdoors, they're family friendly. We don't see any real reason to be concerned about the enhanced likelihood of transmission in those contexts."
