Basically no. The disease remains highly confined to the gay community. The chances of it becoming a seriously threatening pandemic like Covid are low. If you are a sexually active gay man , it is likely wise to limit your number of sexual partners as you are at a large risk. The largest and hardest to quantify threat is a mutation.
Has Monkeypox growth gone linear? We are just shy of 3 months since tracking of Monkeypox began. Worldwide, the 7-day average has remained between for around 10 days.
A big lesson from Covid was not to treat confirmed cases as the only cases. This number is particularly high due to the usual symptoms being unlike pictures on the internet and due to the fact that in Africa, where I suspect there may be many unreported cases due to infrastructure and a higher stigma surrounding homosexuality.
Nearly all cases are contracted through sexual activity among men having sex with men. As an aside, if you are someone who has sex with other men, it would probably be a good personal decision to limit your number of partners.
While Monkeypox spread is rather limited to the gay community thus far, it is certainly not saturated in the gay community, particularly among those who are sexually active.
