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For ten days, up to 80,000 were gathered: Do we have the first monkey cup super-spreading event? | BT Udland - www.bt.dk There is disco lighting, party music and lots of happy people. They dance, hug and enjoy being gathered in a place with thousands of other like-minded people. Yes, the mood is unmistakable on the YouTube videos posted from this year's big Gay Pride Maspalomas in Gran Canaria from earlier in May. But these days, both the Spanish media and the authorities are wondering whether it is actually this event that has helped to spread monkey pox across large parts of Europe. In early May, up to 80,000 people gathered in Gran Canaria for the annual Pride. Spanish media now write that the country's major monkey outbreak probably started here. Before we even take a closer look at the great Gay Pride in Gran Canaria, however, it is first and foremost important to emphasize one thing: the outbreak of infection has nothing to do with the sexual beliefs of the many partygoers. “It’s about the social. It looks as if the eruption here has occurred during a major festival where many thousands of people have been gathered and have had close physical contact with each other. Not necessarily sexually. But it is not about people's sexual orientation, «emphasizes Karen Angeliki Krogfelt, professor of medical microbiology at Roskilde University. The big Gay Pride festival in Gran Canaria began on May 5, 2022, when thousands of LGBT + people made a pilgrimage to the sunny island. Even the organization behind it estimates that about 80,000 managed to attend the festival, which ran until May 15th. During the ten days, there was partying on the Canary Island, and one place in particular attracts the large crowds in the evening: the Yumbo Center. ‘The Yumbo Center is actually a relatively quiet shopping center during the day, but then it explodes in the evening. There is a huge party, and all year round it attracts many homosexuals, which of course is also the case during the pride, "says Kenneth Bo Jørgensen, who runs the website Guide to Gran Canaria. The Yumbo Center in Gran Canaria, where parties are especially celebrated during the annual pride. Were you present during this year's Gay Pride Maspalomas, or do you have any other input regarding monkey pox? Then B.T. would like to hear from you at sebj@bt.dk. After the Gay Pride festival, Spain has found a large number of cases of monkey pox, but initially the story was that it originated from a sauna in Madrid, where gay men meet. On Sunday, however, Enrique Ruiz Escudero from the Madrid region's Ministry of Health was able to say that he is focusing on the Canary Islands. Several of those infected from the sauna in Madrid have been to Gay Pride in Gran Canaria. "If we look at the dates of the party in the Canary Islands, it looks like the infection started there and later came to the sauna in Madrid," he said on Sunday. Gay Pride Maspalomas has been held for 20 years and the many thousands of participants come from around the world. The connection also fits with the fact that in several European countries there are cases of infection - for example in Denmark and Italy - where the infected person has been to Gran Canaria. Several foreign media, including, also write that several European authorities have a special focus on the so-called fetish festival Darklands in Antwerp, Belgium, where monkey pox has also been found among several participants. ABROAD Media: UKRAINE ABROAD Sport ABROAD SPORT ABROAD SPORT sport BERLINGSKE WEEKENDAVISEN sport indictment ukraine indictment Berlingske Media A / S Pilestræde 34 DK-1147 Copenhagen KTlf. +45 33 75 75 33 CVR.no .: 29 20 73 13