"Monkeypox declared global emergency by World Health Organisation
There have now been more than 14,000 cases reported, and five deaths, from 71 WHO member states
The World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency on Saturday, signalling a greater global response to an outbreak that has spread to at least 75 countries in just a few weeks.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general, took the unprecedented step of overruling a panel of advisers to make the designation.
“We have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little, and which meets the criteria”, he told reporters."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...-organization/
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Once this jubilee is out the way , then watch the news headlines take off about the MP
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I was tickled that they have now issued advice not to have sex while you have symptoms. I mean, how does anyone need telling and how is anyone even getting laid with it...
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"People with monkeypox symptoms are being ordered to isolate at home, amid a near-doubling in cases.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued new guidance in a bid to stem transmission in the community.
Until now, those with suspected or confirmed cases of the infectious disease have been urged to call 111 or seek advice from a GP.
But health officials issued new advice on Monday, as an extra 71 cases were identified in England, taking the UK total confirmed cases to 179."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-h...-action-warns/
FFS, why this isn't default advice or better - strict legal requirement, which makes sense when infectious illness (with possible 10% fatality rate)
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Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
I like the fact the government is telling people to self-isolate.
Not exactly going to work with their own behaviour is it?
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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.”
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”.
We s have the scars from the vaccinations back in the 1950s.
It was quite unpleasant as I recall.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 22 May 2022, 09:54.
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