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Gran Canaria pride festival attended by 80,000 investigated as monkeypox superspreader event - Daily Mail

Gran Canaria pride festival attended by 80,000 investigated as monkeypox superspreader event - Daily Mail

Gran Canaria pride festival attended by 80,000 investigated as monkeypox superspreader event - Daily Mail
May 21, 2022 3 mins, 54 secs

The Gran Canarian pride festival attended by 80,000 from Britain and across Europe is being investigated after being linked to numerous monkeypox cases in Madrid, Italy and Tenerife.

It was attended by people who have tested positive for the monekypox virus afterwards, with public health services from the Canary Islands now investigating the any links between the cases and the LGBT+ celebrations.

The Gran Canarian pride festival attended by 80,000 from Britain and across Europe is being investigated after being linked to numerous monkeypox cases in Madrid, Italy and Tenerife.

The development came after it emerged Spanish authorities are also investigating confirmed cases of monkeypox that have been linked to a 'sauna' - which in Spain is used to describe establishments popular with gay men looking for sex rather than just a bathhouse. .

A spokesperson for the department confirmed that one of the Italian men who has the virus was in the Canary Islands, but denied knowing if the man from Tenerife had travelled there, according to a report from the Spanish news website.

The disease, which was first found in monkeys, can be transmitted from person to person through close physical contact - as well as sexual intercourse - and is caused by the monkeypox virus. .

It was attended by people who have tested positive for the monekypox virus afterwards, with public health services from the Canary Islands now investigating the any links between the cases and the LGBT+ celebrations. Pictured, attendees at the event this month.

Dr Claire Dewsnap, president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, is worried about the rate the virus is spreading.

She also warned that the virus could have a 'massive impact' on access to sexual health services in Britain. .

The UK Health Security Agency has said a notable proportion of recent cases in Britain and Europe have been found in gay and bisexual men. .

The virus is more common to west and central Africa but the number of cases confirmed in Britain has hit 20, with nine other countries including Spain, Portugal and Canada also reporting outbreaks.

Yesterday, health authorities in Spain reported 23 more confirmed cases of monkeypox, mainly in the Madrid region where the regional government closed a sauna linked to the majority of infections. .

to control contagion, cut the chains of transmission and try to mitigate the transmission of this virus as much as possible,' said regional health chief Enrique Ruiz Escudero. .

'But I am concerned about our ability to maintain good sexual health services and access for everyone while still managing this new infection.'.

Dr Dewsnap also called for 'adequate funding' for sexual health services.

Meanwhile, Professor Sir Peter Horby, director of the Pandemic Sciences Institute at Oxford University, described the current monkeypox outbreak as 'an unusual situation', because the virus is being transmitted within communities outside of Central and West Africa.

He added: 'It would appear that there is some element of sexual transmission perhaps with just the very close contact between people and the skin lesions, because a large proportion of the current cases are being detected in gay and bisexual men.

The Portuguese cases remain under clinical follow-up but none have been hospitalized as they are all stable, the health authority said.

Health chiefs say the pattern of transmission is 'highly suggestive of spread in sexual networks'.

The tropical virus is thought to be spread by rodents, including rats, mice and even squirrels.

The virus can also spread through coughs and sneezes.

Monkeypox is confirmed by a clinical assessment by a health professional and a test in a specialist lab?

The scabs may also contain infectious virus material?

The UK, US, Israel and Singapore are the only countries which had detected the virus before May 2022?

A World Health Organization report last year suggested the natural R rate of the virus – the number of people each patient would infect if they lived normally while sick – is two.

Twelve countries — including the US, Spain and Italy — have now detected cases of monkeypox?

Germany subsequently confirmed its first ever monkeypox case in a patient who had 'characteristic skin lesions' — a tell-tale sign of the illness.

France last night confirmed a 29-year-old man in Paris had contracted the virus.

The Netherlands Portugal, Sweden and Canada have also detected cases

The UK cases all had the West African version of the virus, which is mild compared to the Central African strain

The jab, thought to cost £20 per dose, contains a modified vaccinia virus, which is similar to both smallpox and monkeypox, but does not cause disease in people

But six of the previous nine confirmed cases were in men who have sex with men — which officials say is 'highly suggestive of spread in sexual networks'

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