Jacob Lorenzo-Morales
Professor of Parasitology, Director of the University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health of the Canary Islands of the University of La Laguna and CIBERINFEC researcher
"The study collects data from two centres, one in Madrid and one in Barcelona. The data clearly informs what has happened in these cases studied and how the patients have been clearly infected.
It is yet another study that supports what we already know: transmission by skin-to-skin contact over a long period of time and, in the case of the most affected population, during sexual intercourse. It is important not to stigmatise, but to alert this population group because they are the most affected so far. If a health problem is not reported and warned about, it does not exist.
It is a study that has the bias of providing data from centres related to sexually transmitted diseases. However, it is interesting, as it continues to alert and warn that these types of practices are the most dangerous.
Although the headline [of the press release] is a bit alarmist, only three people required hospitalisation. I think it is important to warn MSM instead of stigmatising them and also for health authorities to take prophylactic measures, which in many countries, including ours, are still arriving late and badly".