This is the Guardian.

Today, why is Monkey Pox predominantly affecting gay and bisexual men?

And what's our health care system doing to protect them?

It was the early 1990s when Dr. Will Nutland had just started his career in public health.

And around him, friends, loved ones and other men in his community were being diagnosed with HIV.

One of my friends saw his lover die at a really early age and was in my early 20s and started to see

people I loved and cared for getting seriously ill. I saw it at a time when newspapers like the Sun

and the Daily Mail were running the most horrific, bigoted homophobic bile against us. I saw people I

loved and cared for being queer-bashed beaten up on the streets. And I decided that I was not prepared

to not be part of the solution. Will has spent the years since then researching HIV and helping

to educate people on its treatments. And lately, he's been following the outbreak of another infectious

disease that's overwhelmingly affecting men who have sex with men. For the moment, this is an

outbreak that's concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple

sexual partners. Monkeypox can be serious and in rare cases deadly. At first, people might feel

feverish and have intense headaches and muscle pains. Their lymph nodes may swell, making it

painful to swallow. After a few days, they might start to see lesions appearing on their skin,

patches of discoloration that begin flat and then swell with fluid. The scar on my nose was

starting to pound and my heart was suddenly coming here and then pounding on my face. It was so

painful and without any opioids they were giving to me, I wasn't able to sleep, I wasn't able to

do anything. This is a disease that's spreading worldwide. That the World Health Organization has

declared a global health emergency. Since the first case in the UK was detected in May, almost

two and a half thousand people have caught it. Thankfully here, nobody has died and we have access

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