For human-to-human, Monkeypox can transmit (according to current knowledge) by prolonged skin contact (or broken skin), by inhalation, or by eyes/nose/mouth. P

For human-to-human, Monkeypox can transmit (according to current knowledge) by prolonged skin contact (or broken skin), by inhalation, or by eyes/nose/mouth. Put another way - like most viruses, it has to get into your body somehow, and most transmission vectors you can imagine work. So like, you could get it from infected bedding if you had a cut, or it rubbed into your eye, or .... Whether anything helps depends on whether it cuts down on most avenues above. The sex part is mostly irrelevant, except that it is a very direct avenue to get it into your body vs "being coughed on" or "having cuts". Chalk this one up to the media - someone identified that the current origination seems to have been a rave or two (or whatever), and that it can transmit sexually, and so now all the stories are about how it transmits by gay sex and blah blah blah. It's clickbait. In that sense, lots of viruses transmit well by sex, monkeypox is not special or unique, nor is this likely to be the main transmission method as cases increase, even if it was the original transmission method. It has never been the main transmission mechanism of previous outbreaks. I mean, heck, the fact that the media is focusing on the sex transmission helps guarantees it will transmit effectively the other ways - people think they are safe if they aren't having sex, but they are not! The one part that isn't well-evaluated is the whole "how far do droplets travel" part. Right now the view of the CDC is that it requires prolonged face-to-face contact to get it that way because droplets can't travel very far (they are pretty heavy). The view of COVID started the same way. It often ends up rarely that simple ;)