In Women and Nonbinary People, Monkeypox Cases May Have Been Missed
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 21, 2022
In the monkeypox outbreak that unspooled this summer in the United States and dozens of other countries, men who have sex with men were the most at risk. But thousands of women were also infected, and many more cases were probably missed, according to the first ever study of women and nonbinary people who had contracted the disease.
As in men, sexual contact was most likely to be the source of infection among transgender women, accounting for 89 percent of cases, according to the case series, 
