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WHO chief advises reducing sex partners to avoid monkeypox

Healthcare workers with New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene help people register for the monkeypox vaccine at one of the City's vaccination sites, Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York. The World Health Organization recently declared that the expanding monkeypox outbreak is a global emergency. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) FILE - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) delivers his speech after his reelection, during the 75th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022. The World Health Organization chief is advising men at risk of catching monkeypox to consider reducing their sexual partners “for the moment,” days after the U.N. health agency declared the escalating outbreak to be a global emergency. At a press briefing on Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 98 percent of monkeypox cases detected so far have been among men who are gay, bisexual or have sex with other men. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)
WHO chief advises reducing sex partners to avoid monkeypox