US Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organization officials charged with examining the most recent outbreak of monkeypox have determined the virus appears mostly to have been transmitted through sexual contact between men, CNBC reports. “Many diseases can be spread through sexual contact. You could get a cough or a cold through sexual contact, but it doesn’t mean that it’s a sexually transmitted disease,” said WHO STD expert Andy Seale. “We want to help people make the best informed decisions to protect their health and the health of their community from monkeypox,” said CDC official Dr John Brooks, who was careful to avoid inviting the same stigma upon the gay community that came with the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s, cautioning that anyone can catch it. “Anyone with a rash or lesion around or involving their genitals, their anus or any other place that they have not seen it before, should be fully evaluated, both for that rash but particularly for sexually transmitted infection and other illnesses that can cause rash,” Brooks said.