DOOM: Monkeypox

[AtW]

""Monkeypox: Why we should be worried

The sudden rise in global incidents of a rare African disease is ringing alarm bells among disease experts

In a world still on edge from the Covid-19 pandemic, the emergence this week of a scattering of cases of a different disease jumping from animals to humans has put global health experts at action stations. Victims are being struck with fevers, aches and pains and then a rash of ugly fluid-filled bumps and lesions that spread across the skin.

The infection has originated this time not from bats in China, as with the coronavirus, but probably from rodents in Africa. The resulting disease, called monkeypox, has been known for decades, but the current smattering of cases is unexpected because of its wide geographic spread – and it is ringing alarm bells.

Until now, monkeypox has been known to be mainly concentrated in a handful of African countries, including Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with cases only rarely exported elsewhere. "

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-h...hould-worried/

Stock up for a lockdown in autumn...

[AtW]

Watch out for places marked with this sign -

[DoctorStrangelove]

Professor Whitworth said that there is “virtually no prospect” it would be the UK’s next epidemic.

He said: “Most people will recover fully within a couple of weeks or so, but it can be serious and people may need hospitalisation and occasionally deaths occur from this.

“We’ve not seen an outbreak of monkeypox like this in the UK before.

“It’s a serious public health challenge that’s going to take some time to get on top of, but there’s no need to panic.

“The risk to the general population is low and there is virtually no prospect this could become a large epidemic like coronavirus.”

No need to panic!

Not the next pandemic!

We're doomed!

Run for the hills!

The sky is falling!

Someone's used the "p" word!

Oh look, it's even got as far the Torygraph:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/british-sc...150148244.html

A precis thereof:

A group of leading British scientists warned three years ago that Monkeypox would fill the void left behind by smallpox, The Telegraph can reveal.

Two dozen experts met at the Chatham House think tank’s headquarters in London in June 2019, including academics from the University of Cambridge, UCL and the London School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine, as well as experts from the Ministry of Defence and Public Health England (now the UK Health Security Agency, or UKHSA).

At the impromptu seminar they discussed how monkeypox may “fill the ecological niche” left behind by smallpox — which was eradicated in 1980 — and that there is a need to develop “new generation vaccines and treatments”.

The academics wrote their conclusions in a paper, published in 2020 in the journal Vaccine, and warned that fewer than one in three people are now protected against smallpox, and by association, monkeypox, as Britain's vaccination programmes were stopped in 1971. As a result, the population immunity against all pox viruses has dwindled to a diminutive level.

The smallpox vaccine was a live virus that often had side-effects. Now, a new vaccine is available that contains a non-replicating virus and is much better tolerated and offers around 85 per cent protection against monkeypox.

In a prescient foreshadowing of what is unfolding currently, the 2019 paper said: “With the cessation of widespread smallpox vaccination, increased study of the monkeypox virus, the human disease it causes, and its epidemiology are important.

“Monkeypox has been viewed as ‘just another neglected disease’,” they said. “Global travel and easy access to remote and potentially monkeypox-endemic regions are a cause for increasing global vigilance.”

They added that “monkeypox might fill the epidemiological niche vacated by smallpox”.

Oh Dear, How Sad, never mind. .

We s have the scars from the vaccinations back in the 1950s.

It was quite unpleasant as I recall.

[Paddy]

36 new cases today. It will soon outpace covid-19

[SueEllen]

36 new cases today. It will soon outpace covid-19

Nah it will mix with Covid

[ladymuck]

Nah it will mix with Covid

Eww! You have a coughing fit all all your pus-filled lesions burst

[d000hg]

36 new cases today. It will soon outpace covid-19

Rather a difference between 36 cases, and 1-in-36 have it. But exponential growth is a powerful thing.

[Paddy]

Rather a difference between 36 cases, and 1-in-36 have it. But exponential growth is a powerful thing.

71 cases of Monkeypox today that's almost double in 24 hours.

[SueEllen]

71 cases of Monkeypox today that's almost double in 24 hours.

I like the fact the government is telling people to self-isolate.

Not exactly going to work with their own behaviour is it?

[vetran]

I like the fact the government is telling people to self-isolate.

Not exactly going to work with their own behaviour is it?

as they are suggesting it is being transferred by random sex I give it until Friday before Bojo is infected.