A gay man who has had his monkeypox vaccine has warned other gay and bisexual men to ignore the risk of stigma and get inoculated. Rossi, from Cardiff, has been encouraging his Instagram followers to go to a walk-in clinic after seeing the symptoms his friends have developed.
“Basically when I first heard about monkeypox I was like: 'Here we go, another thing that the media’s blowing up to scare us'," Rossi told WalesOnline. "As time's gone on more and more of my friends are catching it.
"I was seeing how serious this virus is within the LGBT community. It started to panic me a little bit because obviously I've seen the symptoms and they're not nice at all. With summer coming up and the events I’ve got coming up I didn’t want to come into contact with it.
