Monkeypox--leveling off

[tall73]

UK monkeypox cases rise as infections spread across the US - latest

Monkeypox cases in Britain have almost tripled as further infections continue to be reported in the United States.

The latest set of figures released by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on Monday afternoon confirmed that the number of cases in England is up by 36, bringing the total number of monkeypox cases confirmed since May 7 to 56.

 

[tall73]

King County investigating first presumptive case of monkeypox in WA

 

[tall73]

Smallpox vaccines can protect against monkeypox, and U.S. has 100 million doses

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that more than 1,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine are stockpiled and can be distributed to those who have been in contact with infected people. In total, the government has more than 100 million doses of a smallpox vaccine called ACAM2000, CDC officials said.

 

[Skye1300]

WHO-Monkeypox

The case fatality ratio of monkeypox has historically ranged from 0 to 11 % in the general population and has been higher among young children. In recent times, the case fatality ratio has been around 3-6%.

Some reports indicate this is the milder version with around 1 percent.

3%-11%! That's worse than COVID!

 

[Skye1300]

interesting, is this real or a scare tactic? and is a significant problem that we should be worried

It's real.

 

[sfs]

My response is government reaction to pandemics. Quite relevant. Besides, biden said we should all be concerned about Monkey pox.

Your response was a knee-jerk political comment about something that isn't a pandemic, caused by a virus that is highly unlikely ever to prompt lockdowns however widely it spreads.

 

[Skye1300]

The bible quote I used probably should have given it away, but as far as I've seen, the infected have been homosexual men that have had sex with other men. So they believe it's spreading sexually, where normally, it has to be contact with an infected monkey and doesn't spread person to person. So this is a strain that can spread person to person but it appears to be through contact/blood.

This is definitely a different strain then. Lord help us! It seems like all sexually transmitted diseases started with homosexuals.

 

[Skye1300]

Obviously, God is smiting the wicked while Satan smites the good.

I have the Boomer advantage of having been vaccinated against smallpox as a tyke.

You're lucky!

 

[sfs]

This is definitely a different strain then.

Sorry, but huh? Any strain of monkeypox can be transmitted by sexual contact.

 

[prodromos]

I don't know if it is just editors being lazy or not, but the picture used in an article about monkeypox was the same picture used in a months earlier article about shingles.

 

[Skye1300]

Switzerland confirms its first case of monkeypox

Switzerland has detected its first confirmed case of monkeypox, a person in the canton of Bern who contracted it through "close physical contact abroad", the canton said in a statement on Saturday.

Oh my goodness! I have family members in Bern! This is spreading like crazy!

 

[Skye1300]

Why is knowledge considered scare tactic? This is the problem in America.

LOL Some people will deny this like they denied COVID.

 

[Skye1300]

Let's hope it is a yawn in the end. But so far this outbreak is on a different scale.

Yup, and that's what they thought about COVID in the beginning. Trump had said it will be gone in 2 weeks. LOL So everyone should take this seriously. It's already mutated if it's transmitted sexually.

 

[Skye1300]

I don’t care what they call it. I’m not taking anything! No stick, no pill, no lies.

I wish they hadn't stopped giving the small pox vaccines to kids! I never got it. So I am nervous.

 

[bèlla]

I wish they hadn't stopped giving the small pox vaccines to kids! I never got it. So I am nervous.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.

I would be more concerned about my spiritual condition than never-ending threats. There comes a point when we must send fear packing and reclaim the ground it stole.

 

[Jamdoc]

Sorry, but huh? Any strain of monkeypox can be transmitted by sexual contact.

Person to person spread is supposed to be extremely rare. This keeps gaining cases.
so it probably is a new strain. Considering the timing is right on queue with the NTI's monkeypox wargames held in March 2021, the disease starts on the 15th of May 2022, and by December 2023 it infects 3.2 billion people and kills 271 million.
That was their timeline
somehow Monkeypox starts spreading mid may 2022.
coincidence?

 

[tall73]

California's first suspected monkeypox case reported in Sacramento County

 

[tall73]

Sorry, but huh? Any strain of monkeypox can be transmitted by sexual contact.

Since it is transmissible by close non-sexual contact it makes sense that it would be by close sexual contact,

However, per quoted experts who dealt with Monkeypox in Africa they had not seen such previously. But then it is also being reported that in this outbreak the lesions in a number of cases are limited to the genital area and perianal area, so perhaps the presentation in other oubtreaks was such that people were not having sex with symptomatic people, if it had the more classic presentation starting on the hands or face.

 

[tall73]

United Arab Emirates detects first case of monkeypox

 

[sfs]

Person to person spread is supposed to be extremely rare.

I've seen the secondary attack rate (the rate of infection among contacts) estimated at 10%. That's not extremely rare.

This keeps gaining cases

They keep identifying cases. Since they're looking hard and since the incubation period is rather long, that doesn't tell you much about how rapidly the virus is spreading.

so it probably is a new strain

Genetically, it's similar enough to existing strains that that's unlikely. At this point, I see no reason to think that a new, more transmissible strain is involved. Caution is warranted, of course.

Considering the timing is right on queue with the NTI's monkeypox wargames held in March 2021, the disease starts on the 15th of May 2022, and by December 2023 it infects 3.2 billion people and kills 271 million.
That was their timeline
somehow Monkeypox starts spreading mid may 2022.
coincidence?

Yes, coincidence, coupled with ascertainment bias. Nobody notices all of the simulations and discussions of possible pandemics that haven't been followed by outbreaks.