Lessons learned from AIDS epidemic: “Monkeypox communication the same as HIV”

According to infectiologist Peter Reiss, 40 years after the first HIV infections in Amsterdam, not enough has been learned about communicating about monkey pox. He calls that amazing.

“The communication is basically the same again: mainly gay men,” he says. Reiss thinks this is unfair. “What we already know about how Monkeypox is transmitted, with close contact, does not exclude the possibility that transmission could also take place.”

Reiss was in the 80s doctor in training in the current OLVG Oost when patients with the HIV virus first appeared in the emergency room.

The entire report on 40 years of AIDS in Amsterdam can be seen below: