Adults spreading monkeypox to kid and prostitutes

From Legal Insurrection: a report of hetero sexual transmission of MPox 

so what about the kids?

 Concerns are focused on the number of children exposed to the infectious agent, from an infected adult in schools, preschools, and daycare. There have been 16 confirmed cases of Mpox since the start of the year in Mecklenburg County. 96% Male 67% Black At least 120 people have been exposed. Of those, 40 of them were children, officials said.

it is unclear if this was one person who exposed the kids, or how they were exposed since the article says individual, not individuals...and note: This is exposed, not actual cases.

“The individual who was infectious was around those individuals for an extended period of time,” Washington said.

presumably no hand washing and changed diapers?

The local paper's story is no longer there and the main story is in the nytimes, meaning behind a pay wall.

the MPox outreach was to the affluent white gay community, who changed their behavior, but since there wasn't an outreach to the black community, who is less tolerant of such things, the news didn't get around. So the NC outbreak is mainly in black males: Meaning it is harder to diagnose due to the dark skin .

Local site has info on who is affected.

at the end of the article, there is a link about a more recent heterosexual spread of Mpox in the Congo: and a lot of the ladies were sex workers.

dirty little secret: dry vagina might be part of the reason, just like with HIV: long acting contraception like Depo Provera and some BC pills dry the vagina, and often men like dry vaginas for greater pleasure, so women will use a drying agent/herb for this.

For the study, researchers interviewed 51 of 164 patients who were admitted to Kamituga (Kiva province of the DRCongo) hospital September 2023 through January 2024. Of that group, 24 were professional sex workers. The most common symptoms were fever and oral and anogenital lesions. Two deaths were reported.

so lady prostitutes? note this part:

Heterosexual partners were mainly affected, suggesting that heterosexual contact may be the main form of transmission. The investigators wrote that professional sex workers –primarily young women–were the dominant occupational group, suggesting that they and their clients may be at higher risk for contracting mpox.