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***Official Monkeypox Thread*** UPDATE: "We" failed to get on top of it!
- Thread starter casa_mugrienta
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No, the fatality rate is listed at less than one percent. And that is probably based on statistics from Africa, where health care is largely non-existent. I don't know where you got your numbers. And no one has died yet. Nothing to worry about.
That was an interesting word choice by the author:
Anyway, to answer your question, the author does not call them culprits.
An important word choice given the way certain demographics have been portrayed as essentially murderers based on how they conducted their personal lives through the COVID epidemic.
Like, "if you don't mask, you're killing people!".
I've always held to the perspective that the virus was the killer not the virus' host (ignoring the edge case where the virus' host intentionally seeks to infect another person without that person's consent)
1. From here (click me).
Key facts
- Vaccines used during the smallpox eradication programme also provided protection against monkeypox. Newer vaccines have been developed of which one has been approved for prevention of monkeypox
- Monkeypox is caused by monkeypox virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus in the family Poxviridae.
- Monkeypox is usually a self-limited disease with the symptoms lasting from 2 to 4 weeks. Severe cases can occur. In recent times, the case fatality ratio has been around 3–6%.
- Monkeypox is transmitted to humans through close contact with an infected person or animal, or with material contaminated with the virus.
- Monkeypox virus is transmitted from one person to another by close contact with lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets and contaminated materials such as bedding.
- Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease that occurs primarily in tropical rainforest areas of central and west Africa and is occasionally exported to other regions.
- An antiviral agent developed for the treatment of smallpox has also been licensed for the treatment of monkeypox.
- The clinical presentation of monkeypox resembles that of smallpox, a related orthopoxvirus infection which was declared eradicated worldwide in 1980. Monkeypox is less contagious than smallpox and causes less severe illness.
- Monkeypox typically presents clinically with fever, rash and swollen lymph nodes and may lead to a range of medical complications.
2. I am not worried for myself and mine, re. Monkey pox.
3. Marburg sighting but maybe this is only deadly to those who believe that viruses can infect people (this should be good for another 10 pages). (I think I need to add a disclaimer here due to recent interpretations of my typings, so while theoretically concerning, practically speaking, this Marburg "outbreak" (can two dead be an "outbreak"?) will likely end up the same way previous outbreaks have run their course, which people can read about here.
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It's happening.
www.cnbc.com
WHO declares rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency
The WHO last issued a global health emergency in response to Covid-19 in January 2020.
Uh, who is "we"?
A bunch of gay guys fail to take it easy for a little while (as Dan Savage put it) and "we" are somehow responsible?
www.thedailybeast.com
A bunch of gay guys fail to take it easy for a little while (as Dan Savage put it) and "we" are somehow responsible?
It’s Too Late: Monkeypox May Be Part of Our Lives Forever
We failed to get on top of the monkeypox outbreak and we may have missed the chance to stop the disease becoming endemic—and a permanent threat—in the U.S. and Europe.
www.thedailybeast.com