Health experts and LGBTQI+ leaders raise awareness on monkeypox to prevent stigmatization

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Health experts and LGBTQI+ leaders raise awareness on monkeypox to prevent stigmatization
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'Viruses don’t care what your gender, sexual orientation, politics or what your hair color is… you’re a warm, sentient being. They will infect you,' said Deborah Fuller, professor in the Department of Microbiology at the UW School of Medicine. FOX13

Now, local health professionals areand its ability to infect anyone, not just specific groups of people.

"R0 is how many people can you infect if you were infected with a virus, and that particular factor is 12 right now for COVID-19--one person can potentially infect 12 people," said Fuller. "With, it’s generally between zero and one. So that’s why in the past, when we’ve had monkeypox outbreaks, it’s been fairly efficient to get those outbreaks under control because you could quickly diagnose, quarantine, contact trace and we also happen to have an effective vaccine against it.

Dr. Wang sits on multiple boards of local and national LGBTQI+ advocacy organizations, including Seattle Pride. He said in just recent years, the queer community was blamed for coronavirus in several countries.

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