“Hiv can******* spread through mucosal membranes” is not anywhere near the same as epidermal (aka skin to skin). I get that this is the internet and people love a “gotcha” win, but this is ultra retarded line of argument and you seem way out of your depth.
The point that I was trying and failing to make was that it doesn't need fissures or other skin/mucosa lesions to infect somebody if they get it on the vulnerable areas of the mucosa. Fissures are the most common route cos they're the easiest but they aren't the only route.
huge fucking lol at HIV residing in the gut
It infects
T cells that reside in the small intestine wall but with help from le activists I've extrapolated that too far so I'll take that back, mea culpa.
Monkeypox is not spread by droplets
Droplet transmission and even saliva transmission are not a highly relevant vector with monkeypox
The
CDC page literally says that it's transmitted by respiratory secretions, though it must be all the way at the
repeatedly coughing right in somebody's face end of droplet transmission based on the limited non-sexual spread. So droplets aren't a highly relevant vector but they're completely irrelevant for HIV so monkeypox presents risks that HIV doesn't.
There's
already a hospital case that's been put down to either fomites or inhaling infected debris from pox/skin lesions, I've never heard of those being transmission routes for HIV. Household transmission occurs
in areas where monkeypox is endemic with about a
3% risk of catching it (or 0.6%, depending on who the writer asked but those number might be for all strains) which is very small but still non-zero and avoidable.
The main similarity between monkeypox and HIV is the gay scene acting as a reservoir for infection due to that population's mastery of the most effective transmission route. Unlike HIV, there's a definite chance of stamping this out early on, due to it being a much more rapidly progressing, obvious disease that's also self-limiting and with a narrower window where people are infectious. The CDC puts the usual duration at 2-4 weeks so there's much lower limit on the proportion of a population who are able to spread it at any given time. It's difficult for it to spread silently like HIV but the extra infection routes will cause it to keep jumping out of the gay scene. However, the current outbreak seems to have been rumbling on in Nigeria
since 2017.
It's not going to go into community spread like other poxes as there's few bridges for it to cross between households but people sharing a house with somebody who's active in the gay scene should be slightly concerned. It looks like virtually nobody who isn't already ill is going to die of the current outbreak of monkeypox but
the CDC thinks there's an increased risk to children and it's assumed (since it's usually the case) that
pregnant women and their foetuses are at an elevated risk of death.
