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20 May 2022, 12:38 pm

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21 May 2022, 4:03 am

You should have named the topic "Emergence of a Deadly Monkeypox".

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21 May 2022, 5:52 am

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21 May 2022, 5:56 am

I've heard there are two cases in Australia. :monkey:



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21 May 2022, 6:09 am

AFAIK, it doesn't transmit easily... unless a strain with easier human-to-human transmission has evolved.


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21 May 2022, 6:14 am

More information -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61524508


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21 May 2022, 7:13 am

Spreading sexually? Or some other way?
Looks like the good old smallpox vaccines help. So we potentially already have the tool at hand.
Well, researches are already on track, we'll see where it leads.
Global world with its ease of travel does make any outbreak potentially pandemic.


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21 May 2022, 8:31 am

The information provided in Cornflake's link suggests maybe we have another outbreak similar to AIDS rather than Covid?

The article says the suspected and confirmed cases are either gay men or bisexual men. Clearly others can get it to, but the history of AIDS outbreaks once suggested something similar.


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21 May 2022, 10:53 am

It won’t be nearly as bad as AIDS.



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21 May 2022, 10:56 am

No more sex with rodents, nor with monkeys!



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21 May 2022, 10:58 am

naturalplastic wrote:
No more sex with rodents, nor with monkeys!

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21 May 2022, 11:03 am

The smallpox vaccine is used in treating monkeypox.

I believe this will prove to be like “measles with steroids.” It’s a longer-duration illness than measles. The rash is more deep-seated, but doesn’t cause scarring like in smallpox, though it might cause scarring like in chickenpox.



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21 May 2022, 11:05 am

Right now, it's more of a puzzle than a threat - it spreads in ways currently not understood.
As scientists say, more research required.


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21 May 2022, 11:23 am

If you had a smallpox vaccine when a child does it work against this pox?
They are ordering a lot of vaccines for it,
https://fortune.com/2022/05/19/monkeypo ... nment/amp/


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21 May 2022, 12:04 pm

It’s said to provide good protection.



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