If you or your partner are showing symptoms of monkeypox, isolate immediately and contact a health care provider. Touching items during or after sex that were also touched by a person who has monkeypox.Transmission can happen during sex or other intimate actions, including:
The clusters of cases show that monkeypox is spreading among the social networks of men who have sex with men, including through skin-to-skin contact during sexual activity.Īccording to the CDC, men who have sex with men, as well as those who are in close contact with them, are currently at a higher risk for exposure to monkeypox. In 2022, several people in NYC have tested positive for the family of viruses to which monkeypox belongs. Monkeypox: Higher Risk of Exposure Among MSM
