Public health efforts need to reach out to this community, not in an accusatory fashion, but to encourage individuals to reduce their risks. It was not unreasonable, then, for PHAC to advise men to limit their sexual partners, though the majority of gay men already did so before the monkeypox outbreak. Fresh concerns about the spread of monkeypox add urgency to the efforts to curb its spread. The World Health Organization has declared monkeypox a public health emergency. If we learn from our past mistakes, it won't take so long to get control of the monkeypox epidemic.

Source: thestar August 06, 2022 03:03 UTC