Francisco Javier Membrillo, an infectious disease specialist, explained on Más Vale Tarde that “condoms do not protect us from monkeypox.” “Contact does not only occur through genital fluids but also through skin-to-skin transmission,” he explained.
He also stressed that “although in Spain at the moment almost all infections are from men who have contact with men, infection can occur in all sexual practices.” He explains that infection can occur in people who have many contacts with different people, but insists that “in Africa, most infections are heterosexual.”
In Spain, according to the Health Ministry on Monday, there have only been four cases in the last 10 days, and they were also of the old variant. That is why Membrillo said that we should have a “low level of concern”. “We have news that tells us about a health emergency and we are going into 2020. But we are talking about a totally different situation,” the specialist wanted to reassure.
