Now a new pandemic is upon us

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@Joe90

Yes, 10% fatality rate is a lot higher than Covid-19's fatality rate, which I think is ~1 or 2%. So it is realistically scary. But that might actually also be detrimental to the virus' survival, too. Ebola's fatality rate is very high and that's one of the reasons why it doesn't spread. So the virus' fatality rate itself doesn't tell you if it's going to be a true global problem like Covid-19. Besides, isn't there already a vaccine for this virus?

It’s 10% in Central Africa which, unfortunately, doesn’t have good medical infrastructure.

The mortality rate would probably be much, much lower in a “western” locale.

It doesn’t spread as readily as COVID. You have to have pretty intimate contact with a person with monkeypox in order to get it.

There’s known treatments for it. Unlike COVID at the beginning.

There’s a West African strain, which is hardly ever fatal. The people who have monkeypox now primarily have the West African strain.

The Central African strain of monkeypox has a 10% mortality rate IF LEFT UNTREATED.

But then that means we'll have to go into lockdown again because millions of people will be in the hospital wards being treated for monkeypox otherwise they'll die.

Apparently the cases are increasing every day in the UK. How can that be possible if it isn't an airborne flu like covid? Who are these f*****g people?!

Mountain Goat, hinting at conspiracies and other nonsense is not helping.


Joe90, it's not a pandemic.
Try these -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45665821
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61524508

There is already an effective vaccine - the one developed for smallpox.

The difference between monkeypox and AIDS (circa 1985):

Monkeypox has treatments. AIDS had no treatment.

We have a much better handle on monkeypox than we did on AIDS.

The smallpox vaccine both prevents monkeypox, and is a treatment for monkeypox. There is no vaccine for AIDS. Anybody who has taken the smallpox vaccine is the past (over 40 years ago) is at least 85% immune to monkeypox.

I believe we will nip this in the bud.

Last edited by kraftiekortie on 23 May 2022, 8:02 am, edited 2 times in total.

Thank you for the reassurance.

I think I'm just panicking because of what happened with the covid and everything. I'm probably not the only one who's feeling like this.

The thing to do.....is to be cautious, and to read up on it every day.

Yeah, stuff like this is never a happy read - and you won't be the only one worrying about it.
But it's not Covid, and there is already a very well established vaccine available.