Mpox

[Imatwork]

Looks like its back.

[Ben]

WHO Director-General declares mpox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (https://www.who.int/news/item/14-08-2024-who-director-general-declares-mpox-outbreak-a-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern)

[FionaFortune]

It is primarily spread through direct physical contact and contact with items that were
in direct physical contact with an infected person.

It's not an airbourne spreader like covid 19. There are cases where infected people
flew long international flights next to the infected and no one caught it.

Here is what the CDC says:

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/0509-monkeypox-transmission.html

The JYNNEOS vaccine is also widely available since the 22' outbreak. It is 2 doses over 28 days

It's a problem but nothing to freak about yet. IMO

[Stavros]

It is primarily spread through direct physical contact and contact with items that were
in direct physical contact with an infected person.

It's not an airbourne spreader like covid 19. There are cases where infected people
flew long international flights next to the infected and no one caught it.

Here is what the CDC says:

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/0509-monkeypox-transmission.html

The JYNNEOS vaccine is also widely available since the 22' outbreak. It is 2 doses over 28 days

It's a problem but nothing to freak about yet. IMO

To Fiona's useful post, allow me to post this, on the disease, and its relationship to Smallpox -so yes, a disease that can be treated, but worrying at the same time.

Be careful out there!

A narrative review of pox: smallpox vs monkeypox - PMC (nih.gov) (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9746567/#:~:text=The%20famed%20variola%20(smallpox)%20viru s,areas%20in%20the%20twentieth%20century.)

[BostonBad]

I just got back to semen eating, now this....


I will go back to famine mode now 😞

[holzz]

seems like a more advanced form of chickenpox. may be a nuisance but not fatal and only in extreme cases.

Mpox is a cringe name. Only racists and the uneducated link it to black people.

[Stavros]

seems like a more advanced form of chickenpox. may be a nuisance but not fatal and only in extreme cases.

Mpox is a cringe name. Only racists and the uneducated link it to black people.

I suggest you create a new name for the disease and submit your proposal to the WHO in Geneva.

[holzz]

I suggest you create a new name for the disease and submit your proposal to the WHO in Geneva.

or they can stop being woke, or assuming that some racist dipshits should make them change the name. when anbody of sense knows it wasn't named monkey pox due to racism or to denigrate black people.

[ts interrupted]

or they can stop being woke, or assuming that some racist dipshits should make them change the name. when anbody of sense knows it wasn't named monkey pox due to racism or to denigrate black people.

It was only really affecting one group of people… And it sure wasn't a particular ethnic group. It was named properly.

[holzz]

It was only really affecting one group of people… And it sure wasn't a particular ethnic group. It was named properly.

I'm not racist. unlike you apparently. and don't tell me "you don't know me!!" it's funny you're stuck in kindergarten and don't get how humans behave. people in life don't owe you shit.

[Stavros]

"Monkeypox virus was discovered in 1958, when two outbreaks of a pox-like disease (https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/symptoms/index.html) occurred in colonies of monkeys kept for research. Despite being named “monkeypox” originally, the source of the disease remains unknown. Scientists suspect African rodents and non-human primates (like monkeys) might harbor the virus and infect people.The first human case of mpox was recorded in 1970, in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 2022, mpox spread around the world. Before that, cases of mpox in other places were rare and usually linked to travel or to animals being imported from regions where mpox is endemic.
The World Health Organization renamed the disease in 2022 to follow modern guidelines for naming illnesses. Those guidelines recommend that disease names should avoid offending cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups and minimize unnecessary negative effects on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare. The virus that causes it still has its historic name, however."
About Mpox | Mpox | Poxvirus | CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/about/index.html#:~:text=Monkeypox%20virus%20was%20disco vered%20in,of%20the%20disease%20remains%20unknown. )

It could also be named MPXV but I don't know if this will satisfy Holzz.

[MrFanti]

As a Black male myself, it's quite fascinating to read this thread!

[bruce_willy]

I don't have to worry about monkeypox.

I'm not a monkey.