Monkeypox Outbreak

nivek

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Who is quoted in its headline as saying that the smallpox vaccine triggered the AIDs virus

Not sure the origin of that quote, I tried to find the original London article hoping it was digitized and free to access online but couldn't find it...I wanted to read that article but also posted hoping maybe someone could fill in some blanks...

The WHO's global smallpox eradication programme began in 1967, and was completed by 1977.

I was vaccinated when I was 11 or 12 years old which would have been in the year 1975 or early 1976...

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AD1184

Celestial
I am wondering about the story that we were given about the origin of this monkeypox outbreak. We were told that the index case was a British resident returning from Nigeria. It could well be that someone returned from Nigeria with monkeypox about a month ago. People contract the virus in that country all the time, and from time to time, someone returns to Britain with it. However, I don't believe there is any proven epidemiological link between that case and others around the globe in the outbreak. Has the strain in the British 'index case' even proven to be the same strain in genomic analysis as that circulating more widely?

A 'pride' event on the island of Gran Canaria has been implicated as a super spreader event that has caused the virus to spread to many other countries. So it may only have been a coincidence that someone returned to Britain with monkeypox from Nigeria, at the same time that the outbreak from Gran Canaria got going, and there may be no connection between the two events.
 

nivek

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WHO does a U-turn on monkeypox, says unsure whether it can be contained

After claiming that the monkeypox infections, now spread to about 30 countries with more than 550 confirmed cases, can be contained, the World Health Organisation has admitted that it is not sure whether the virus can be kept in check.

WHO officials, had earlier, stated that the monkeypox outbreak "is a containable situation", and "collectively, the world has an opportunity to stop this outbreak. There is a window".

However, now, Dr Hans Kluge, head of the WHO's Europe office, said "we do not yet know if we will be able to contain its spread completely".

He said that although the monkeypox response should not mimic the scale of Covid-style restrictions, health authorities do need to take "significant and urgent" action to mitigate the threat.

According to Kluge, Europe remains at the epicentre of the largest and most geographically widespread monkeypox outbreak ever reported outside of endemic areas in western and central Africa. The learning curve has been steep over the past two weeks.

"We now have a critical opportunity to act quickly, together, to rapidly investigate and control this fast-evolving situation," he said.


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michael59

Celestial
What happened to all those kids that were getting infected and dying from hepatitis? Were they all just magically cured and the hepatitis disappeared when monkeypox showed up?
 

wwkirk

Divine
What happened to all those kids that were getting infected and dying from hepatitis? Were they all just magically cured and the hepatitis disappeared when monkeypox showed up?
The public can only focus one one news topic at a time. Maybe two.
-That's how the media sees it, anyway.
 

nivek

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A 'pride' event on the island of Gran Canaria has been implicated as a super spreader event that has caused the virus to spread to many other countries. So it may only have been a coincidence that someone returned to Britain with monkeypox from Nigeria, at the same time that the outbreak from Gran Canaria got going, and there may be no connection between the two events.

There seems to be no connection that I'm aware of with those who fell ill in the US with Monkeypox and that alleged super spreader event...Also I haven't heard of any connection with those infected in Israel either...

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nivek

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Monkeypox was spreading globally undetected for 'years', WHO expert claims

Monkeypox may have been spreading around the world undetected for 'a couple of years', a World Health Organization expert has claimed.

Dr Rosamund Lewis, the agency's technical lead for the tropical disease, told a briefing work was ongoing to pinpoint how long it had been transmitting in people.

But she suggested the tropical disease could have been in the population for several years after jumping from animals to humans.

Monkeypox has likely been spreading silently in social and sexual networks for some time, experts say, before super-spreader events at two raves in Europe sparked the current outbreak.

It is not clear how long the virus has been circulating undetected in America, but top advisers suggest it was 'possibly' in the country before the first case was detected in Massachusetts last month — although not to 'any great degree'.

At least 26 monkeypox cases have been spotted in the U.S. in less than three weeks — with Hawaii becoming the twelfth state to spot the virus this weekend.

Most infections are linked to international travel to 'areas experiencing an outbreak', but at least one U.S. case is in a patient with no links to travel or another patient.

Globally, the virus — which is native to West Africa — has cropped up in more than two dozen countries which are mostly in Europe.


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nivek

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American citizen infected with Monkeypox escapes Puerto Vallarta hospital and flees Mexico

A US citizen with monkeypox escaped from a hospital in a Mexican resort and fled the country, local health authorities said Wednesday.

The 48-year-old man, originally from Texas, fled the hospital in Puerto Vallarta on Mexico’s Pacific coast last weekend despite having been told by medical staff that he should be tested for monkeypox and kept in isolation, the state health department said in a statement.

When he arrived at the hospital, the patient had symptoms of “cough, chills, muscle pain and pustule-like lesions on his face, neck, and trunk,” the agency said.

After fleeing the medical facility, the Texan then went to the hotel where he was staying with his partner and caught a flight out of Puerto Vallarta on June 4, before authorities were able to locate him.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to Mexican authorities on Monday that the patient had returned to the United States where a test confirmed he had monkeypox.

Prior to arriving in Puerto Vallarta on May 27, the individual was in Berlin, Germany, between May 12 and 16, and subsequently in Dallas, Texas.

During his stay in Mexico, he attended parties at the Mantamar Beach Club in the resort town of Jalisco. Health officials urged anyone who attended the club between May 27 and June 4 to monitor their health.

The World Health Organization said that it was aware of more than 1,000 cases of monkeypox in countries where the disease is not endemic.


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nivek

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UK's monkeypox outbreak tops 500 cases as health chiefs reveal another 52 Brits have caught rash-causing virus

Britain's monkeypox outbreak passed 500 cases today, with another 52 patients sickened with the tropical virus. UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) bosses say 'most' new infections are still among gay and bisexual men.

England has recorded 504 cases, Scotland 13, Wales five and Northern Ireland two.

Health chiefs are scrambling to contain the tropical virus, which is usually only seen in Africa amid fears it could become endemic in Europe. Dozens of countries around the world, including the US, Spain and Portugal, have all been affected with around 1,800 confirmed global cases.

The growing tally comes as Pride event organisers said monkeypox must not be used as an excuse to shut down LGBTQ+ celebrations. It also comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) promised to rename the rash-inducing infection following calls for a new 'non-discriminatory and non-stigmatising' term.


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nivek

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WHO considers renaming Monkeypox because some scientists call it "discriminatory" and "stigmatizing"

The World Health Organization is considering renaming the monkeypox virus after a group of scientists from Africa and elsewhere said there was an urgent need to replace the "discriminatory" and "stigmatizing" label, reports Bloomberg.

"In the context of the current global outbreak, continued reference to, and nomenclature of this virus being African is not only inaccurate but is also discriminatory and stigmatizing," the scientists' group said in a position paper online.

"If SARS-CoV-2, for instance, was not named the Wuhan virus … then the question is, Why do we have a virus or a clade named after a specific geographical location in Africa, and then by extension that extends to the people in those areas?" Christian Happi, director of the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases at Redeemer's University in Ede, Nigeri, told Stat News.

"If we have to go by geographical location, then we should name all viruses by geographic location."

Happi also expressed anger at the way the outbreak is being portrayed in the mainstream media. Some news outlets have included photos of African children with monkeypox lesions.

"We find that very discriminatory; we find that very stigmatizing and to some extent … I find it very racist," he said. "The mainstream media, instead of showing pictures of people that are presenting with the lesions, which are white men, they keep putting forward pictures of children in Africa and Africans. And there's no connection."

Maria Van Kerkhove, who heads the emerging diseases and zoonoses unit in the WHO's Health Emergencies Program, on Saturday said the agency was amenable to the idea.

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nivek

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25 monkeypox cases confirmed in New York state

Twenty-five cases have been reported in New York, with 23 in New York City, one in Sullivan County and one in Westchester.

The city's health department says the most recent cases are not linked to travel, which suggests person-to-person transmission is taking place.

The disease causes a rash that can look like chickenpox. Visit on.nyc.gov/monkeypox for more information.

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nivek

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Monkeypox mutates at unprecedented rate with ‘accelerated evolution,’ study finds

Researchers investigating the monkeypox virus said it appears to have mutated at an unprecedented rate — much quicker than experts initially predicted, according to a new study.

The study, which was published in the medical journal Nature Medicine on Thursday, found that there were an average of 50 mutations in samples from this year when only up to 10 would typically be expected.

In the study, a group of Portuguese researchers analyzed the first monkeypox sequence publicly released on May 20, along with 14 additional sequences released before May 27.

Researchers discovered around 50 genetic variations in the viruses, a figure six to 12 times higher than previous studies of other orthopoxviruses, a family of viruses to which monkeypox belongs.

The study said the mutation rate may suggest a case of “accelerated evolution.”

João Paulo Gomes, a co-author and the head of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit at the National Institute of Health in Portugal, said the number of mutations was “quite unexpected.”

“Considering that this 2022 monkeypox virus is likely a descendant of the one in the 2017 Nigeria outbreak, one would expect no more than five to 10 additional mutations instead of the observed about 50 mutations.”

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nivek

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Texas man says monkeypox is '100 times worse' than COVID and left him with blisters so painful they felt like 'someone was taking a potato peeler to my skin'

'Complete hell': Texas man says monkeypox is '100 times worse' than Covid

Luke Shannahan, who lives in Dallas, was told he was exposed to the virus after attending pool parties and a music festival. Two days later he developed a 101F fever, headache and swollen lymph nodes that made him look 'like a frog'. Shannahan then had blisters erupt across his body which felt like someone was peeling his skin whenever he brushed against something. The patient, who works as a bartender, was administered a monkeypox vaccine after he was diagnosed, but still ended up bedridden with the disease for two days. He said: 'It's just the most traumatic experience I've ever had. It's the worst sick I've ever been.'

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nivek

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nivek

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As Monkeypox Spread in New York, 300,000 Vaccine Doses Sat in Denmark

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When monkeypox was first detected in the United States in mid-May, there were about 2,400 doses on U.S. soil, in the federal government’s strategic national stockpile, used mainly to protect lab workers and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention personnel engaged in research, officials said.

The United States also owned well over 1 million Jynneos doses in vials — and enough vaccine for millions of more doses that had yet to be filled into vials — in Denmark, where the producer of the vaccine, Bavarian Nordic, is headquartered.

Much of that supply was tied up in bureaucratic red tape because the Food and Drug Administration had yet to inspect and certify a new facility outside Copenhagen where the company now fills the vaccine into vials — an issue that has yet to be fully resolved.

But there were 372,000 doses owned by the United States that were ready to go. These doses, stored at the company’s headquarters, had been filled into vials earlier, at a different facility with the necessary FDA approval.

Rather than quickly transfer those doses back to the United States and begin administering them, however, the federal government adopted a wait-and-see attitude. In the first few weeks after monkeypox was detected in the United States, the government requested only 72,000 of the 372,000 doses.


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nivek

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Here's a monkeypox tracking site similar in layout to worldometer...


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