NYC reveals that 95% of monkeypox patients in the Big Apple are men with ZERO women having been infected so far - and at least 60% are 'LGBQ': US case tally reaches 1,470
- Nearly every single case of monkeypox detected in New York City has been in a man
- Not a single confirmed case has been in a woman, though there are few cases where the gender is unknown
- Nearly 60% of cases have been confirmed in someone that reported being gay, bisexual or lesbian
Monkeypox infections in New York City are overwhelmingly being found in men - with more than half of cases being detected among lesbian, gay, bisexual or queer people as well.
Officials in the Big Apple revealed the first snapshot of the demographics of people that have been infected with the tropical virus.
Of the 336 cases in the city - the most of any singular locality in America - 321 are among men, with no confirmed cases among women. The remaining five percent of cases are split between transgender persons and cases where the gender is unknown.
Transgender people were not included with the LGBQ community in the data.
The virus has famously erupted among communities of gay and bisexual men across the world in recent months after first being detected in Europe, and this data confirms that the community is being hammered by the virus in New York as well.
According to data from NYC Health, every single person with a confirmed infection in the city is between the ages of 20 and 69, with a media age of 35.
The virus has overwhelmingly hurt males in the city. Nearly every case has been confirmed in a male - which would make sense considering the sexual networks where the virus has so far traveled.
While no cases have been confirmed among women yet, there are still eight cases where the gender of the person was not recorded.
Straight people have largely avoided the virus as well, with only two confirmed cases among the group.
Around 60 percent of confirmed cases are in the LGBQ community. Transgender individuals were not included with this group.
The sexuality of the infected person was unknown in 40 percent of cases.
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