An advisor to the World Health Organisation has said that the unprecedented current outbreak of monkeypox in Europe may have been caused by sexual activity at two raves.
Dr David Heymann, the former head of WHO's emergencies department, told The Associated Press that the leading theory on the spread of the disease was sexual transmission at raves held in Spain and Belgium.
He said: "We know monkeypox can spread when there is close contact with the lesions of someone who is infected, and it looks like sexual contact has now amplified that transmission."
