CDC Expresses Concern About Possibility of Undetected Monkeypox Spread in UK (statnews.com) 30
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has expressed concern about an unusual outbreak of monkeypox in the United Kingdom, suggesting there appears to be at least some undetected transmission of the virus there and warning of the possibility that the outbreak could spread beyond U.K. borders. From a report: "We do have a level of concern that this is very different than what we typically think of from monkeypox. And I think we have some concern that there could be spread outside the U.K associated with this," Jennifer McQuiston, a senior CDC official, told STAT in an interview.
Seven confirmed and one probable case of monkeypox have been discovered in the U.K. since early May -- an unusually large number given that human monkeypox cases are uncommon, and are especially rare outside West and Central Africa. While one of the cases had recently traveled to Nigeria, where monkeypox is endemic, the others appear to have contracted the virus in the U.K. None of the people infected domestically has any known connections with the traveler and the timing of the onset of the cases suggest he was not the source of those infections. Further reading: Spain, Portugal report monkeypox cases, raising specter of wider outbreak.
Seven confirmed and one probable case of monkeypox have been discovered in the U.K. since early May -- an unusually large number given that human monkeypox cases are uncommon, and are especially rare outside West and Central Africa. While one of the cases had recently traveled to Nigeria, where monkeypox is endemic, the others appear to have contracted the virus in the U.K. None of the people infected domestically has any known connections with the traveler and the timing of the onset of the cases suggest he was not the source of those infections. Further reading: Spain, Portugal report monkeypox cases, raising specter of wider outbreak.
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This will drive us bananas!
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If you have the smallpox vaccine, you're safe. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:If you have the smallpox vaccine, you're safe. (Score:4, Informative)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... [nih.gov]
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Purpose of the study you cited: "The threat of smallpox resulting from bioterrorist action has prompted a reassessment of the level of immunity in current populations."
Perhaps the study was meant to provide some comfort, but I highly doubt that's your average everyday vaccine-controlled smallpox sitting inside bioweapons.
If Fat Man and Little Boy look like firecrackers compared to today, then just imagine what they've actually done with bioweapons behind closed doors. For something that humanity wishes d
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Many others have received smallpox vaccine as well - it's something we can still manufacture because there have been smallpox outbreaks as recent as 2004.
So even though there is no monkeypox vaccine, smallpox vaccine works just fine right now
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because there have been smallpox outbreaks as recent as 2004.
got a source for that?
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Monkeypox requires *extremely* close physical contact. The current cases in the UK are all in homosexual men. I leave you to draw your own conclusions.
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US and Canada (Score:3)
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Monkeypox? (Score:2)
Oooook!
Herd immunity! (Score:2)
It worked for Covid, so it will surely work for Monkeypox or any other disease!
With that UK civil servants go back to have their afternoon tea and their 4 stages of handling any crisis.
Immunocompromiced population due to COVID-19 (Score:2)
Oh, good! (Score:2)
Already in the USA and Canada .... (Score:2)
It is already in the USA and Canada [bbc.com].