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Professor David Heymann, the World Health Organisation’s former assistant director-general for health security and environment, said the leading theory out of many put forward to explain the spread of the disease was sexual transmission at raves in Europe. Monkeypox is not normally a sexually transmitted infection, but it can be passed on by direct contact during sex.Ī new theory has emerged about the spread of the disease. Transmission between people is occurring in the UK, with a large proportion of cases identified in the gay, bisexual and men who have sex with other men community. Released by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the figure was an increase from the previously confirmed 20 cases. The spread of monkeypox has been linked to people having sex at raves across Europe.
