transmitted infections but you can make out with someone as a precursor to sex and give them covid heres my face the obvious risk is that people go about their daily lives while infected and spread this to other people lets start with the designation and differentiation between a sexually transmitted infection and disease you can get when being intimate that doesnt make covid a sexually transmitted infection and that is through harm reduction that is through sharing healthy ways to reduce risk jason rosenberg an activist at act up ny based in new york city told abc news people wait in line to recieve the monkeypox vaccine at the bushwick education campus in brooklyn on july 17 2022 in new york city the illness can also be contracted from the clothes or other fabrics such as bedsheets used by an infected patient as this does get bigger which were all anticipating its only a matter of time until this hits other groups this is what the experience has been like for me monkeypox is a disease that does not require sexual intercourse to be transmitted and if we continue to call it a sexually transmitted infection it mischaracterizes the manner in which it is transmitted prior to the outbreak most cases occurred in countries where the virus is usually found or endemic typically central and western africa stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous as any virus said who directorgeneral tedros adhanom ghebreyesus at a press conference saturday tedros adhanom ghebreyesus director general of the world health organization who speaks during the 75th world health assembly in geneva on may 24 2022 i have monkeypox more 5 things to know about monkeypox and skin analysis roberts said he has seen patients who have told him that monkeypox is restricted to the men who have sex with men community so there is no reason for them to be concerned mark hall a nurse practitioner who was diagnosed with monkeypox says he isnt exactly sure who he contracted the disease from