A popular summer street fair returned to San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood with some changes due to monkeypox.
"It's good to see one of the last vestiges of the whole 'kink out and about' thing still surviving," said Russ Bono from Palm Springs."I like to think of it as the biggest leather block party," said Executive Director Angel Adeyoha.
Adeyoha says this year, the timing of a recent citywide state of emergency over monkeypox has changed the game plan, raising concerns."I don't know if you came in previous years, but you would be body to body. Clearly that's not the case now, we've made room for folks," said Adeyoha. The scaled-down event stretched several blocks. Alcohol is not allowed. The San Francisco Department of Public Health was doing outreach about monkeypox.Giang was taking precautions in the crowd."My precaution is I won't be doing anything in close contact with a person. I'm vaccinated for monkeypox, that's a big concern," said Frederico Palyo from San Francisco.
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