People with HIV did not show more severe clinical symptoms during the 2022 mpox outbreak in Spain

People affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, did not develop more severe forms of mpox than HIV-negative people during the multiregional outbreak of this disease that occurred in Spain in 2022. This is one of the main conclusions of an article published in Scientific Reports, which has analyzed 1,158 confirmed cases of mpox in adult men. The cases were reported between June 2022 and January 2023 in seven autonomous communities. The population sample analyzed in the study represents more than half of the cases recorded in Spain during this period.