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'Have safe sex' is the advice against monkey pox - but how should it be understood? | India | DR Condom is not sufficient, but reduces the risk of infection with monkey pox, experts explain. By Cultivate safe sex.It is one of from both and, when it comes to what one can do themselves to reduce the risk of becoming infected with monkey pox.The viral disease - also called monkeypox in English - has recently found its way to Europe, But what is meant by safe sex when it comes to monkey cups? Is it the condom that makes the difference, and what exactly will it be able to do when we know that the many virus-filled blisters sit on the whole body and are not for the genitals? If it's a question of just using a condom, I can not see that it is sufficient here, because you can have the cups everywhere on the bodyAllan Randrup Thomsen, professor of experimental virology at the University of CopenhagenAlthough a condom generally protects very well against many sexually transmitted diseases, it is no guarantee against infection when it come to monkey cups, explains Allan Randrup Thomsen, professor of experimental virology at the University of Copenhagen. - If it's a question of just using a condom, I can not see that it is enough here, because you can have the cups everywhere on the body. And you do not have the condom down over your head. - If you rub the bodies up and down each other or take around the partner, you will also be able to transmit it that way. As an infected person, you will not have more virus on the genitals than you have on, for example, the hands. So in that way the condom is a protection, explains Allan Randrup Thomsen. Smallpox is not very contagious, but can be transmitted from person to person through close contact. For example, if you live together or have sexual contact. The first symptoms will typically be fever, chills, muscle aches and headaches. Then there will be a rash with red dots, which typically begin on the face and can spread to the whole body. They will develop into virus-filled blisters, and when they burst, the virus can be spread. It can, for example, be sex toys or sleeping in the same bedding as an infected person. There are no specific recommendations in relation to preventing infection against monkey pox. However, the recommendations for good hygiene still apply, just as the National Board of Health encourages using a condom during sex. Nevertheless, even when it comes to monkey cups, there is a good reason to encourage safe sex and the use of condoms, explains Christian Morbjerg Wejse, who is chief physician at the Department of Infectious Diseases at Aarhus University Hospital. The virus must enter the body, and it is of course also because it is more sexually transmitted than just from skin to skin. Christian Morbjerg Wejse, chief physician at the Department of Infectious Diseases at Aarhus University Hospital is an opening. On the other hand, it is open at the mucous membranes, and this makes you more susceptible to it. - It is not the case that viruses can train through the skin, says Christian Morbjerg Wejse. - Viruses must enter the body, and this is of course also why it is more sexually transmitted than just from skin to skin. Christian Morbjerg Wejse also says that lesions on the genitals have formed a significant part of the infection we have seen so far. Monkey pox is usually a viral disease that is spreading in West and Central Africa. in families with smallpox, but are not particularly contagious.The cases of infection seen have been particularly among men who have had sexual contact with men.But men who have sex with men are not at higher risk than other persons, There is close physical contact with an infected person with symptoms. Source: The National Board of Health The message about having safe sex is also seen by Allan Randrup Thomsen as someone to use his head when having sex at the moment. yggelig with who you go to bed with, he advises.- In principle, you should also take the clothes off each other and see what the bodies look like. Are there any signs that there are smallpox, and if it is, one should of course refrain from being in close contact. reports that there are no specific recommendations in relation to infection with monkey pox. But they recommend, as we know from the corona era, that you maintain good hygiene, wash your hands often or use rubbing alcohol. And then also the condom on when you have sex.