Official version from the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

Prevention
Updated July 11, 2022
2022 U.S. Monkeypox Outbreak
CDC is working with state and local health officials to identify people who may have been in contact with people who have tested positive for monkeypox, so they can monitor their health.

Prevention Steps

Take the following steps to prevent getting monkeypox:

Avoid close, skin-to-skin contact with people who have a rash that looks like monkeypox.
Do not touch the rash or scabs of a person with monkeypox.
Do not kiss, hug, cuddle or have sex with someone with monkeypox.
Do not share eating utensils or cups with a person with monkeypox.
Do not handle or touch the bedding, towels, or clothing of a person with monkeypox.
Wash your hands often with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
In Central and West Africa, avoid contact with animals that can spread monkeypox virus, usually rodents and primates. Also, avoid sick or dead animals, as well as bedding or other materials they have touched.

If you are sick with monkeypox:
Isolate at home
If you have an active rash or other symptoms, stay in a separate room or area away from people or pets you live with, when possible.
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/prevention.html

General Mackevili wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:39 amI very much hate to be politically incorrect these days, but people do realize monkeypox is more of a STD and is almost exclusively being spread by men in the gay community, right? So unless this Nigerian dude was banging his tuktuk driver, it's very unlikely he spread it to anyone.

So if you're gay, feel free let other dudes bang you in the cornhole, but do be aware that this puts you at the highest possible risk of catching monkeypox.

This has been your politically incorrect public service announcement.

It may be almost exclusively in the gay community now, but HIV-AIDS also started that way and then spread to heterosexual people, possibly via bisexual people. I would be surprised if Monkeypox didn't follow the same history

wrt political correctness, I'm surprised it's still called Monkeypox

Cambodia News (Phnom Penh): On the morning of 6 August 2022 the Ministry of Health announced that the Nigerian who was treated for monkeypox at the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital has been released from hospital with a negative test result for monkeypox, confirmed by the Pasteur Laboratory of Cambodia on 5 August 2022.

Currently, this person has been handed over to the authorities for further legal procedures. The public is kindly requested to be informed and to continue to implement measures to protect themselves from the spread of monkeypox, in accordance with the reminders from the Ministry of Health, dated 5 August 2022.

It should be noted that a 27-year-old Nigerian man with monkeypox, who fled from Thailand to Cambodia, was found and arrested by the police on the evening of 23 July 2022 around Doeum Thkov Market, Chamkarmon District, Phnom Penh. After the arrest, the Nigerian man was handed over to the Ministry of Health and put in quarantine. He has now been released from quarantine.

vivathedivas wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 2:02 pm

General Mackevili wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:39 amI very much hate to be politically incorrect these days, but people do realize monkeypox is more of a STD and is almost exclusively being spread by men in the gay community, right? So unless this Nigerian dude was banging his tuktuk driver, it's very unlikely he spread it to anyone.

So if you're gay, feel free let other dudes bang you in the cornhole, but do be aware that this puts you at the highest possible risk of catching monkeypox.

This has been your politically incorrect public service announcement.

It may be almost exclusively in the gay community now, but HIV-AIDS also started that way and then spread to heterosexual people, possibly via bisexual people. I would be surprised if Monkeypox didn't follow the same history

wrt political correctness, I'm surprised it's still called Monkeypox

The origins of HIV/AIDS is fairly debatable with some theories placing it back pre WW2 rather than the commonly held view that it first made the leap from simians to humans in Africa in the 1960's - which is debunked because the blood of a dead man was tested positive for HIV in 1959 in the Congo

A good reason not to eat bushmeat/and or fuck any simians (there are widespread independent accounts of monkeys and other simians being used in brothels all over Africa)

It's quite certain that it was around the world for decades before it's effect primarily on the IV drug addicts and gay male population became undeniable and it was recognised as a "novel" illness in 1980

Interesting reading - https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct- ... story.html

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:03 pm Official version from the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

Take the following steps to prevent getting monkeypox:

Avoid close, skin-to-skin contact with people who have a rash that looks like monkeypox.
Do not touch the rash or scabs of a person with monkeypox.
Do not kiss, hug, cuddle or have sex with someone with monkeypox.
Do not share eating utensils or cups with a person with monkeypox.
Do not handle or touch the bedding, towels, or clothing of a person with monkeypox.
Wash your hands often with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
In Central and West Africa, avoid contact with animals that can spread monkeypox virus, usually rodents and primates. Also, avoid sick or dead animals, as well as bedding or other materials they have touched.

That's a lot of ways you can catch the pox that don't involve being "banged in the cornhole".