Monkeypox

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Just seen on Twitter that the WHO classified Monkeypox as a global health emergency...

 

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https://news.sky.com/story/moneypox...k-of-exposure-to-be-offered-vaccines-12637989Monkeypox: Gay and bisexual men at higher risk of exposure to be offered vaccines

 

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Handy:

Vaccine makers see share prices spike as concerns grow over Mpox

The share prices of a number of healthcare and pharmaceutical companies worldwide rose on Friday as the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a rapidly-spreading African Mpox outbreak a public health emergency.

www.euronews.com

 

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They still don’t know what if it’s an epidemic or not

Investigation into monkeypox outbreak in England: technical briefing 1

www.gov.uk

 

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So are they saying it is a storm in a tea cup?

Well they say they don’t know much about the new strain if it’s as virulent as made out it won’t be as easily controlled as the previous one? Why not start vaccinating in the affected countries?

 

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https://news.sky.com/story/monkeypox-gay-and-bisexual-men-express-fears-about-rise-in-cases-12622058Monkeypox: Gay and bisexual men express fears about rise in cases

 

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Just seen on Twitter that the WHO classified Monkeypox as a global health emergency...

WHO declares highest alert over monkeypox https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62279436

 

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The numbers are still very low, so I think that's why hardly anyone's bothered. Which pretty much proves the earlier comments that it's mostly spread by very close skin to skin contact. It's not like Covid where numbers went up rapidly from mid March 2020.

I don't think renaming it will make people scared - only rapidly increasing infection rates will do that.

I thought the WHO has reconvened the emergency committee to see if they're going to upgrade it to epidemic

 

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We’re not permitted to send kids to school with chickenpox. I think with this disease it’s even more severe on the unborn child I don’t think letting kids take it home is a good idea

 

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They haven’t used the vaccine ( routinely in the UK) since 1971 .
https://news.sky.com/story/monkeypo...mptoms-and-how-easily-does-it-spread-12614394Monkeypox: What is it, how serious is the outbreak, and what can you do to avoid it?

 

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Eh, I sort of see the reasons for being worried that this could turn into something serious and should therefore be contained. But at the same time, I don’t think it will have the same response as COVID

There were a lot of articles during COVID saying that this sort of stuff would become more common in general because we have so much contact with animals these days. And I imagine after seeing the damage a pandemic could cause there’s a sense of needing to be more careful and of course the news reports on it more because it’s bound to get clicks. Before COVID we’d maybe see a few articles and news reports and move onto something new

 

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Are we all gonna die or what?

 

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Seems to be taking off in Scotland Was this person just unlucky or is it more widespread

Inverness trial halted amid reports of witness 'suffering from monkeypox'

Scotland's health officials have confirmed they are investigating a “small number” of possible monkeypox cases.

www.heraldscotland.com

 

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Seems to be an entirely different virus if it doesn’t look , spread or share the same symptoms

 

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From 5000 to 20,000