British officials have told those suffering from monkeypox that they should abstain from sex in the hopes of curbing the spread of the disease.
Those showing symptoms of the monkeypox virus should avoid having sex with other people, government experts have advised those suffering from the disease.
Monkeypox warnings ‘went ignored,’ and now world must brace for more outbreaks: scientists
For years, African scientists tracked a steep rise in monkeypox cases.
More than 2,800 suspected cases were reported in 2018 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone. The year after, there were nearly 3,800.
By 2020 — half a century after the first human infection was found in the central African country, then known as Zaire — the total tally of suspected annual cases neared 6,300, including 229 deaths.
