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monga

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Gym&Tonic said:
It was always obvious that Covid was different and was likely to turn into the pandemic that scientists had been warning of for decades. The similarities to cold and flu and the fact that it spread so easily, this does sound more some weird tropical disease rather than another potential pandemic but who knows. I hope I’m right.
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They haven't seen it passed like an STI before it's mostly in young gay/bi men atm .

There’s also things like this put us all at risk
 
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Emmelina Ball

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Merpedy said:
Am I understanding correctly that at the moment the monkeypox vaccine is simply the smallpox vaccine because the two viruses are so closely related? I scrolled through the articles above and did some googling and that’s the only answer I’ve gotten

www.cdc.gov

Monkeypox in the U.S.

Learn more about monkeypox in the United States.
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The smallpox vaccine is around 85% effective against monkeypox but it carries huge risks so it isn’t widely available. The risk of the smallpox vaccine don’t outweigh the benefit for most people. There is a newer, allegedly “safer” smallpox vaccine but it’s scarcely available.
 
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rainbowlemon said:
Actually I think you’re right. Most doctors wouldn’t really recognize diseases more specific to other countries and super rare in ours. I remember reading an article about one of the MMR ones as - the doc hadn’t seen a single case before so had no clue.
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Was just thinking would we get a more severe dose as it's very rare here where as Africa have it circulating for a few years, it all but died out there till about 6 yrs ago so maybe their immune systems were able to deal with it better through exposure 🤷‍♀️
 
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Brigitjonesbuttcheek said:
Does anyone know if monkey pox is one of those things that are in rats and squirrels in Europe but we just don't come into close enough contact with them, or does it only exist in Africa.

Because the outbreak is all in Europe, it doesn't look like it's comes from Africa. Which makes me think it's jumped from an animal here into people. Or we've lost some sort of immunity we had before.
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They don't know where it's come from ,they think a patient zero who was asymptomatic could be the cause as it not endemic in western animals that they know of .
It could be down to some sort immunity loss when you think of the rare hep cases in kids of unknown origin ,they're still no closer to finding a cause for that either.

 
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rainbowlemon said:
“Mr Kaseya said the continent needs more than 10 million vaccine doses but only about 200,000 are available.

"We have a clear plan to secure more than 10 million doses in Africa, starting with three million doses in 2024," he added, without saying where the vaccines would be sourced.”
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Don’t know which is worse the vaccine or disease 😂 hopefully it’ll die out if it’s more severe.
 
Emmelina Ball

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monga said:
But my point was from the tweet above where they weren’t isolating even the infected case ,so letting it rip through the schools is crazy imo.
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So for clarity do you support and suggest an entire class isolate (because your comments seemed to be advocating that in order to protect others outside the classroom they should all isolate), or is your issue that the sick one isn’t isolating? I’m lost.

Most responsible parents would keep a sick child at home whether it was a public health requirement or not.
 
Tatooine_legend1

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It is interesting how so many of these diseases come from Africa and Asia. Most of the worse viruses and diseases in history seem to have come from those continents. I wonder why.
 
monga

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I see they've set up a task force in NI too that should be good as our waiting time's 20 years 😂
 
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Emmelina Ball said:
You could say the same about the risk of chickenpox, slapped cheek and even cold sores affecting the unborn baby severely having dire outcomes.
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Still not as severe as Monkeypox, we know how severe German Measles is in pregnancy so we take action to try and eliminate the risk.
 
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Joe’s concerned


Gym&Tonic said:
I didn’t realise it was sexually transmitted. More like AIDS/HIV then I assume.
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It’s being passed exactly like that ,but it’s airborne aswell so anyone can catch it if they’re near an infected person, it’s also a 12 day incubation period before symptoms show so people can be infectious without knowing it.