It had been hoped that cases could be limited just to the UK, but that didn’t happen.Two new cases of the monkeypox virus have been confirmed in the UK, bringing up the total number of confirmed diagnoses since May 6 to nine. The virus, though usually “self-limiting”, can be deadly for one in 10 patients, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Portuguese health authorities on Wednesday confirmed five cases of monkeypox – a rare viral infection related to smallpox – in young men, marking an unusual outbreak in Europe of a disease typically limited to Africa.
And over in Spain we are now being told that there are 23 different victims that are currently exhibiting monkeypox symptoms…Portugal’s General Directorate for Health added it was investigating another 15 suspected cases and that all were identified this month around the capital Lisbon.
Health authorities in Spain have issued an alert over a possible outbreak of monkeypox after 23 people showed symptoms compatible with the viral infection, which has already been detected in the UK and Portugal.
Following the stunning news that we got from Portugal and Spain, a top official at the CDC warned that she was “very confident we’re going to see cases in the United States”…The health ministry cautioned that the suspected cases – all in the Madrid region – had yet to be confirmed, but said a nationwide alert had been issued “to guarantee a swift, coordinated and timely response”.
And right on cue, it has happened.“Given that we have seen now confirmed cases out of Portugal, suspected cases out of Spain, we’re seeing this expansion of confirmed and suspect cases globally, we have a sense that no one has their arms around this to know how large and expansive it might be. And given how much travel there is between the United States and Europe, I am very confident we’re going to see cases in the United States,” said Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the CDC’s division of high consequence pathogens and pathology.
A Massachusetts resident has tested positive for monkeypox, health officials confirmed Wednesday, making it the first case of the rare virus detected in the United States this year.
This is all beginning to move much faster than I had anticipated.According to a release from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the patient is an adult male who recently traveled to Canada. The department completed initial testing Tuesday and was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But health officials have little clue where people caught the virus. And there’s concern the virus may be spreading through the community – undetected – and possibly through a new route of transmission.
As I stated earlier, normally it is very difficult for one person to pass monkeypox on to another person.“This [outbreak] is rare and unusual,” epidemiologist Susan Hopkins, who’s the chief medical adviser of the U.K. Health Security Agency [UKHSA], said in a statement on Monday.
If this turns out to be accurate, this is going to have enormous implications.In addition, there’s evidence the virus could be transmitting through a new route: sexual contact. “What is even more bizarre is finding cases that appear to have acquired the infection via sexual contact,” epidemiologist Mateo Prochazka at the UKHSA wrote on Twitter. “This is a novel route of transmission that will have implications for outbreak response and control.”
Isn’t that convenient?In 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first vaccine for monkeypox, which also protects against smallpox. “This vaccine is also part of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), the nation’s largest supply of potentially life-saving pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for use in a public health emergency that is severe enough to cause local supplies to be depleted,” the agency said.
Agreed. I do believe this one was the first thread.Amazing the timing between this new "outbreak" and the W.H.O. new "capabilities"...
You beat me to it.BREAKING REPORT: Health Officials in Massachusetts Confirm First U.S. Case of Monkeypox.
FLASHBACK: Monkeys Escape After Truck Crashes on Pennsylvania Highway.
FLASHBACK: Woman falls ill after exposure to monkeys at Pennsylvania crash site, 3 monkeys euthanized.
COINCIDENCE?
View: https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1527046852130091009?t=aJn5ArSFJJG-k39w0HdI1A&s=19
WTF?!? - Danville pa, monkeys on the loose.
Should be good and dead soon low of zero tonight up there.www.timebomb2000.com
She posted quite a bit already, yesterday morning.Oh Helen....where art thou? Anyone in contact with Our Favorite Panty-clad Lady?
Any advice for the TB2K Family?
I am Paying attention to this one, since the "Vid" was a bust and we commoners are getting a bit uppity.
With Kind Regards,
W. A.
Well of COURSE they are.Disclose.tv
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JUST IN - G7 health ministers to take part in a pandemic exercise in Germany, simulating a fast-spreading and dangerous outbreak of a "smallpox virus" originating from leopards, BILD reports.
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Upcoming G7 health ministers virus exercise: "A leopard bites a human and transmits a dangerous smallpox virus."
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Pandemie-Szenario „Leopard-Pocken“: Gesundheitsminister proben für den Ernstfall
Anfang 2020 traf die Corona-Pandemie die ganze Welt völlig unvorbereitet. Es fehlte kurzfristig an Masken, Kitteln und
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Well of COURSE they are.
Isn’t that precious?
No clue. I just saw that post this morning so commented.Is there a another source for this? Where that came from is a tabloid in Germany. It may be true but I can't find another news source for it.
Yes true what you said.OK, if I were an epidemiologist (and I kind of learned how they think in the early days of AIDs/HIV) I would avoid all "PC/woke" stuff and ask all the affected men, "Did you have contact with sexual or simply meeting up with, anyone on a gay cruise or adventure trip?"
As many here know, a lot of my very close friends since college have been gay men, and I know that pre-COVID "gay cruises" on ships and "gay adventure tours" by plane were an important part of it for some better-off folks especially older couples or younger men with jobs in the travel industry (or IT).
Often, a feature of these trips for some participants was sex with locals, but not everyone, I have older friends who just enjoy going on a cruise where they can be themselves but for some people yeah, it's a thing, and the travel companies know it.
And with Monkeypox, there may not even need to have been sex, just party time or even close dorm-like quarters for part of the "photo safari" or whatever may have been "situation Zero."
I hope it IS something like this, a convoluted trail that may be difficult to connect at first but makes perfect sense once it does. Like a major spread of HIV originating from one air steward who flew all over the US, Canada, and Europe and may have infected hundreds all on his own (rare but it happens).
Because if it is NOT traceable, if it turns out these people for the most part had NO CONTACT with each other, not even meeting for coffee, then things get a lot scarier. It means either it is out there in the wild and traveling by some means we don't know yet, or simply infecting say 2 people in a room of 50 randomly in ways we don't understand. Or it means that SOMEONE(s) may be releasing this in someway with INTENTION to INFECT people.
I really-really hope what we have a is natural outbreak, transmitted mostly by sexual or very close contact and that even with the shadow of HIV and "the shunning" that took place back then; there will be enough information to nip this in the bud.
The problem will be getting people to come forward when they first feel sick and since the early symptoms are pretty much like flu, that's going to be very difficult.
What a mess...
I'll post the article I came here to post next rather than clutter up this post.
It’s a riveting, well made “movie”.Run time over an hour.
Watch "Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon" on YouTube
View: https://youtu.be/E_iifJyP4ZA
Uh oh......Bloody hell. Just bloody hell.
They're talking about shutting down any net speech negative to the LBGQT community.
Find links, people. I gotta go. Be safe.
You beat me to it.
Came to mind not long after these new pox cases started being reported.
Run time over an hour.
Watch "Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon" on YouTube
View: https://youtu.be/E_iifJyP4ZA
and leading up TO the MIDTERMS.
surprise the wonderful new vaccine may not work....
OHHHHHH...I bet it will work.
Just not in the ways people expect it to.
Can you tell us where you bought it and cost ? thanksI decided awhile back to get some S. purpurea..maybe it would help, maybe not..
"Good News" there's a "vaccine."
Potential "Bad News" this is a new variety that is transmitting in ways we have never seen before (already happening) and surprise the wonderful new vaccine may not work....
Ok, I must have missed that on these posts. Do you have information on this?"Good News" there's a "vaccine."
Potential "Bad News" this is a new variety that is transmitting in ways we have never seen before (already happening) and surprise the wonderful new vaccine may not work....
I bought some extract from Amishways.net..I also have some of the Indian stuff I got off Amazon..they have all sorts of choices..Can you tell us where you bought it and cost ? thanks
eta: Also, any dosage recommendations ?