Monkey Pox

[captainmorgan]

It's popping up all over the planet so it deserves a thread. I believe it's covid related along with the hepatitis in children. Covid damages all the bodies systems including the immune system and that opens the body to other viruses, bacteria, fungus, cancer, you name it, like the black fungus attacking lungs in India.

 

[injinji]

It's popping up all over the planet so it deserves a thread. I believe it's covid related along with the hepatitis in children. Covid damages all the bodies systems including the immune system and that opens the body to other viruses, bacteria, fungus, cancer, you name it, like the black fungus attacking lungs in India.

I'm in the dark on this one. Is there a moderate to high risk of death? How transmissible, treatments, etc. etc.

 

[CunningCanuk]

 

[captainmorgan]

I'm in the dark on this one. Is there a moderate to high risk of death? How transmissible, treatments, etc. etc.

There are two variants of monkey pox and luckily the one spreading is the milder one at around 1% fatality rate, the bad one is around 10%.
It's a DNA virus so it mutates very slowly. It usually spreads by contact and is not airborne. It's only contagious when symptomatic. Overall it's not that scary and has been around a long time with small outbreaks. Either it's mutated to be more infectious or covid has damaged the immune systems of a lot of people to make them more susceptible, I believe the later.

 

[injinji]

There are two variants of monkey pox and luckily the one spreading is the milder one at around 1% fatality rate, the bad one is around 10%.
It's a DNA virus so it mutates very slowly. It usually spreads by contact and is not airborne. It's only contagious when symptomatic. Overall it's not that scary and has been around a long time with small outbreaks. Either it's mutated to be more infectious or covid has damaged the immune systems of a lot of people to make them more susceptible, I believe the later.

Thanks. I had heard on NPR that it was rare outside west Africa.

 

[nuskool89]

“How do you get monkeypox?
Humans can get monkeypox from animals, either through bites or scratches or preparing meat from wild game, according to the CDC.
Person-to-person transmission can occur through the exchange of large respiratory droplets during prolonged face-to-face contact. People can also get exposed through direct contact with bodily fluids, the lesions that form during an infection, or contaminated items like clothing or bedding.
Many of the newly identified cases in Europe are among men who have sex with men, but monkeypox is not considered a sexually transmitted infection.”

I think we just read the same article @captainmorgan

The symptoms and causes of monkeypox infections

Widespread cases prompted the World Health Organization to declare monkeypox a public health emergency last week.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[captainmorgan]

It pops up around the planet regularly and in the US too but it's not spread easily and the symptoms are unmistakable and hard to miss.

 

[captainmorgan]

BNO News Monkeypox Tracker

Tracking monkeypox cases and deaths around the world. Live updates.

bnonews.com

 

[captainmorgan]

Mpox | Poxvirus | CDC

Mpox is a viral disease that can be spread between people or between people and certain animals.

www.cdc.gov

 

[captainmorgan]

Guess it should be mentioned that the Soviet Union worked with monkey pox as a bio weapon, I'm not saying that's what's going on.

 

[captainmorgan]

"The West African clade, which has so far been detected in the cases reported in Europe, has been observed to have a case fatality rate of 3.6% in studies conducted in African countries."

First draft genome sequence of Monkeypox virus associated with the suspected multi-country outbreak, May 2022 (confirmed case in Portugal)

Joana Isidro1, Vítor Borges1, Miguel Pinto1, Rita Ferreira1, Daniel Sobral1, Alexandra Nunes1, João Dourado Santos1, Maria José Borrego3, Sofia Núncio2, Ana Pelerito2, Rita Cordeiro2, João Paulo Gomes1,*. 1 Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health...

virological.org

 

[captainmorgan]

So, Have You Heard About Monkeypox?

A new viral outbreak is testing whether the world has learned anything from COVID.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[captainmorgan]

WHO to convene a emergency meeting on monkey pox.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

WHO to convene a emergency meeting on monkey pox.

It is not airborne and not as much of a threat of contagion as covid. Smallpox vaccines work against it and prevent it, but they have Bill Gates microchips in them! Guess who won't take the vaccines? Or who will refuse to wash their hands out of protest and Tucker tells them. All Biden has to do is push it and they will refuse it out of hand, the more red the more dead. They will have monkeypox parties FFS!

 

[cannabineer]

It is not airborne and not as much of a threat of contagion as covid. Smallpox vaccines work against it and prevent it, but they have Bill Gates microchips in them! Guess who won't take the vaccines? Or who will refuse to wash their hands out of protest and Tucker tells them. All Biden has to do is push it and they will refuse it out of hand, the more red the more dead. They will have monkeypox parties FFS!

with cocaine and monkeys

 

[Rurumo]

It's sexually transmitted too, I feel sorry for those poor monkeys.

 

[ProPheT 216]

Just interested to see how the story changes, as of right now it's not very contagious. Need to have contact with blood or open sores. Basicly have to live in the same house and touch the same shit like pink eye

 

[captainmorgan]

It's more infectious than that, respiratory droplets can spread it so a face to face conversation can spread it and I've seen estimates of it surviving on surfaces for 90 hrs. But it should be easily controlled with masks and hand sanitizer.

 

[captainmorgan]

Looks like I'll need a booster if this gets out of control.

I was vaccinated against smallpox 40 years ago. Am I still protected?

www.scientificamerican.com

 

[captainmorgan]

Well the virus has been sequenced and it looks the same as a 2018 virus sequence from the UK, not sure if they made a complete comparison. The latest theory is there was a superspreader event in Europe, a 10 day gay pride festival in Spain that was attended by people from all over the world.
It still doesn't fit the usual monkey pox outbreaks so I'm still thinking compromised immunity plays a role in it, maybe HIV and covid.