Italy's monkeypox cases all men – Spallanzani – English & More News Here

(ANSA) – ROME, JUN 3 – Italy’s 20 or so confirmed monkeypox
cases are all men, the nation’s high infectious illness
hospital, the Spallanzani in Rome, mentioned Friday.
   
It mentioned it was “plausible” they’d contracted the illness
throughout intercourse.
   
An article printed by Spallanzani researchers in
Eurosurveillance, the journal of the European Centre for Disease
Prevention and Control (ECDC), is the primary detailed description
of an outbreak of the virus, along with two different speedy
communications by British and Portuguese researchers, printed
in the identical variety of the journal.
   
They all posit that transmission by direct contact throughout intercourse is
probably the most believable contagion trigger.
   
The Spallanzani article additionally describes the primary monkeypox viral
genome sequencing accomplished in Italy.
   
It was registered on GeneBank on May 26.
   
The sequencing reveals that all the Italian cases belong to the
West African clade of the virus, like different analysis.
   
Arezzo’s San Donato Hospital contributed to the outline of
the cases. (ANSA).