Monkeypox - a new global health emergency

[pfifes]

Just now, pfifes said:

A quote from “There is no great genius without a touch of madness.”

 

A quote from Aristotle: “There is no great genius without a touch of madness.”

[The_DADDY]

4 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

Here we go again 

Yup  ..

 

It's like one of these ⬇️

 

 

 

 

[Prettytom]

18 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

Here we go again 

Do us all a favour please.

 

Either make a proper contribution, or keep your nose out.

 

Thank you.

[Beechwood_S6]

14 minutes ago, Prettytom said:

Do us all a favour please.

 

Either make a proper contribution, or keep your nose out.

 

Thank you.

[peak4]

15 hours ago, Anna B said:

 

I understand most of the victims recover within a fortnight.

And the last I heard, only one person outside of Africa has it.

Looks like just one from this variant's outbreak in Sweden at the moment; there's other cases around, such as Germany and Pakistan, but they might be the older one from 2022, but until it's sequenced, no-one can be sure.

The 2022 outbreak seemed to have a death rate of about 1:500, whereas the current strain is more transmissible and is currently running at 1:300 in DRC

Article on vaccine production here of one of the newer specific vaccines
MPox Vaccine Manufacturing in Africa ‘Unlikely’; Donations Are Most Likely Supply Channel, says Bavarian Nordic Official Health Policy Watch

 

Sweden Detects First Case Of More Virulent Strain Of Mpox Forbes

 

[hackey lad]

4 hours ago, Prettytom said:

Do us all a favour please.

 

Either make a proper contribution, or keep your nose out.

 

Thank you.

😂😂😂 loser . 

[pfifes]

This is an interesting article on monkey pox.  

 

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-should-starmer-do-about-monkeypox/

[peak4]

1 hour ago, pfifes said:

This is an interesting article on monkey pox.  

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-should-starmer-do-about-monkeypox/

I can't help feel it says more about the author Ross Clark and his own agenda than Mpox itself. Desmog link
Yes WHO has declared an emergency, which highlights the issue of transmission from DRC to other countries.
e.g. the NHS needs to be alert to possible cases, and the existing UK's infectious disease tracing system might need putting in motion;

N.B. the existing one, not the C-19 version. It's been used successfully for years for thing like STD or TB outbreaks. HMG link
The big difference the author chose not to mention is the means of transmission, (and the related differences in actual transmissibility/infectiousness.)
The other one, is that the world already has experience of dealing with MPox outbreaks as I mentioned in earlier posts, but see also;

https://sph.umich.edu/news/2022posts/monkeypox-it-may-be-the-next-pandemic-but-its-different-than-covid.html

 

[RollingJ]

Well said @peak4. My thoughts too - Mr. Clark obviously likes stirring it.

[pfifes]

1 hour ago, peak4 said:

I can't help feel it says more about the author Ross Clark and his own agenda than Mpox itself. Desmog link
Yes WHO has declared an emergency, which highlights the issue of transmission from DRC to other countries.
e.g. the NHS needs to be alert to possible cases, and the existing UK's infectious disease tracing system might need putting in motion;

N.B. the existing one, not the C-19 version. It's been used successfully for years for thing like STD or TB outbreaks. HMG link
The big difference the author chose not to mention is the means of transmission, (and the related differences in actual transmissibility/infectiousness.)
The other one, is that the world already has experience of dealing with MPox outbreaks as I mentioned in earlier posts, but see also;

https://sph.umich.edu/news/2022posts/monkeypox-it-may-be-the-next-pandemic-but-its-different-than-covid.html

 

Monkeypox may not be the next pandemic however.  It appears that Bird Flue may actually  be a greater concern https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/11/bird-flu-human-transmission-prepared-pandemic