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Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« on: May 19, 2022, 08:13:45 PM »
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61506562

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The first case of the disease in the UK was reported on 7 May. The patient had recently travelled to Nigeria, where they are believed to have caught the virus before travelling to England, the UK Health Security Agency said.
There are now nine confirmed cases in the UK. The source of these infections has not yet been confirmed but cases seem to have been "locally acquired", the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
In Europe, one confirmed case was reported in Sweden on Thursday, as well as one in Italy and a suspected case in France. Swedish authorities said they were not sure how the individual had contracted the virus, but local media report that the individual in Italy had recently returned from the Canary Islands.
Five confirmed cases were also reported in Portugal on Wednesday, as well as seven in Spain.

The first 2 confirmed cases in Canada came out today; 11 more suspected.
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2022, 08:15:14 PM »
Wow, that's bananas.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2022, 08:21:44 PM »
Monke pox
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2022, 02:58:16 AM »
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Monkeypox is a rare viral infection which is usually mild and from which most people recover in a few weeks, according to the UK's National Health Service.

The virus does not spread easily between people and the risk to the wider public is said to be very low.
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2022, 04:21:40 AM »
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Monkeypox is a rare viral infection which is usually mild and from which most people recover in a few weeks, according to the UK's National Health Service.

The virus does not spread easily between people and the risk to the wider public is said to be very low.

I sure hope so.  But for a disease that is rarely seen outside of Africa to spread to so many countries so fast is mildly alarming. 

I hope this is like the Murder Hornet fad from a couple years back.  Seemed to have the potential to be pretty ruthless, but turned out to be a nothing-burger.  A lot of us thought that's what COVID was going to be.

Just something to be aware of for the moment.
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2022, 12:23:07 PM »
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2022, 12:40:27 PM »
Nick's wedding is going to be a Monkeypox super spreader event... I can't wait!

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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2022, 12:43:25 PM »
Nick's wedding is going to be a Monkeypox super spreader event... I can't wait!

*insert joke about tuxedos and monkey suits*
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2022, 01:01:21 PM »
Nick's wedding is going to be a Monkeypox super spreader event... I can't wait!
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2022, 04:25:58 PM »
I remember the beginning of the first covid thread, about 400 pages ago, when we were all flippant and lighthearted like this...


Good times....


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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2022, 08:48:02 PM »
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2022, 08:49:06 PM »
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Monkeypox is a rare viral infection which is usually mild and from which most people recover in a few weeks, according to the UK's National Health Service.

The virus does not spread easily between people and the risk to the wider public is said to be very low.

I sure hope so.  But for a disease that is rarely seen outside of Africa to spread to so many countries so fast is mildly alarming. 

I hope this is like the Murder Hornet fad from a couple years back.  Seemed to have the potential to be pretty ruthless, but turned out to be a nothing-burger.  A lot of us thought that's what COVID was going to be.

Just something to be aware of for the moment.

Murder Hornet fad?!! WTF?!!  :rollin :rollin :rollin
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2022, 05:34:42 AM »
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Monkeypox is a rare viral infection which is usually mild and from which most people recover in a few weeks, according to the UK's National Health Service.

The virus does not spread easily between people and the risk to the wider public is said to be very low.

I sure hope so.  But for a disease that is rarely seen outside of Africa to spread to so many countries so fast is mildly alarming. 

I hope this is like the Murder Hornet fad from a couple years back.  Seemed to have the potential to be pretty ruthless, but turned out to be a nothing-burger.  A lot of us thought that's what COVID was going to be.

Just something to be aware of for the moment.

Murder Hornet fad?!! WTF?!!  :rollin :rollin :rollin

This was all over the North American news last summer for a couple of weeks - https://www.livescience.com/murder-hornet-nest-destroyed-2021.html

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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2022, 05:37:49 AM »
W.A.S.P.  :metal :metal :metal
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« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2022, 06:41:13 AM »
 :lol
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2022, 06:50:33 PM »
Shit, look out Brent!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-20/monkeypox-case-in-sydney-and-melbourne/101084864


Apparently the guy who brought it in is a touring metal musician which means that Brisbane will be safe  :biggrin:
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2022, 07:02:22 PM »
Shit, look out Brent!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-20/monkeypox-case-in-sydney-and-melbourne/101084864


Apparently the guy who brought it in is a touring metal musician which means that Brisbane will be safe  :biggrin:

 :lol :lol  Phew!!  ;D
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2022, 07:47:46 PM »
Shaq Hornet. Big dude.
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #19 on: May 22, 2022, 06:38:57 AM »
I know most of ya'll probably think I'm going all Chicken Little, but just to share some awareness:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/monkeypox-canada-global-outbreak-1.6461880?cmp=rss

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Five cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in Quebec and Canada's chief public health officer said Friday provinces are continuing to investigate "a couple dozen" possible cases throughout Canada — with more likely to be confirmed in the days and weeks ahead.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday there are currently about 80 confirmed cases worldwide, with another 50 pending investigation and more likely to be reported as global surveillance expands.

West and Central Africa typically see thousands of endemic cases reported annually, but monkeypox cases outside of Africa are rare and largely tied to travel. What sets this global outbreak apart is the rise in cases with no known travel origin.

"What we're seeing right now is unprecedented. We have multiple geographic locations across the globe that are reporting cases … What is the epidemiological link between these cases and is there anything that is related back to changes within the virus?"

The current strain circulating globally appears to be the West African, but genomic sequencing is currently ongoing in Canada and around the world to determine whether it has any distinct genetic mutations.

"There's always that question of, have things changed?" said Kindrachuk.

William Hanage, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-director of its Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, says the strain looks closely related to what has circulated in West Africa in 2018, but more research is needed.

"It's certainly behaving differently in the sense that it's much more widespread. Because up until very recently, there had been a handful of countries outside Africa to which it had been introduced," he told CBC News.

"There's obviously something different going on here. Now, what's making that difference is currently unknown." Hanage said the current strain of monkeypox circulating in at least 11 countries, including Canada, appears to be more transmissible, with a reproductive number likely above one, given that the global outbreak is continuing to grow in unknown size.

If COVID should have taught us anything, it's that virus' mutate.  What we (the world) thought we knew about virus' can be obsolete.

Of course, the anti-vax crowd is now jumping on this saying it's just shingles, and a way to force the shingles vaccine on everyone.  You know what you clowns, go and get shingles then, and enjoy that torture.
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #20 on: May 22, 2022, 07:52:09 AM »
I'm due to get my second shingles shot.
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« Reply #21 on: May 22, 2022, 08:01:33 AM »
Of course, the anti-vax crowd is now jumping on this saying it's just shingles, and a way to force the shingles vaccine on everyone.  You know what you clowns, go and get shingles then, and enjoy that torture.

I feel like you would be happier and less stressed about covid if you just stopped paying attention to the news and/or anti vax people.  :hug:

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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #22 on: May 22, 2022, 04:11:08 PM »
I know most of ya'll probably think I'm going all Chicken Little,

Nah, why would we think that?…
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #23 on: May 22, 2022, 07:46:36 PM »
Of course, the anti-vax crowd is now jumping on this saying it's just shingles, and a way to force the shingles vaccine on everyone.  You know what you clowns, go and get shingles then, and enjoy that torture.

So are we going to see a monkey pox vaccine in the near future then?
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #24 on: May 22, 2022, 09:09:49 PM »
Of course, the anti-vax crowd is now jumping on this saying it's just shingles, and a way to force the shingles vaccine on everyone.  You know what you clowns, go and get shingles then, and enjoy that torture.

So are we going to see a monkey pox vaccine in the near future then?

Unlikely... the Smallpox vaccine is supposed to do a sufficient job in providing protection - but since Smallpox was eradicated in the 70s, there’s a generation of people (this guy included) who never got/needed that vaccine.
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #26 on: May 23, 2022, 08:16:58 PM »
I read that it was passed through sexual contact, so I felt the majority of the dtf.org community would be safe.
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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #27 on: May 23, 2022, 08:18:54 PM »
 :lol
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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« Reply #28 on: May 23, 2022, 08:32:56 PM »
Oh thank god.  :rollin

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« Reply #29 on: May 23, 2022, 09:09:12 PM »
I read that it was passed through sexual contact, so I felt the majority of the dtf.org community would be safe.

 :lol Outstanding!
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« Reply #30 on: May 23, 2022, 09:33:17 PM »
I read that it was passed through sexual contact, so I felt the majority of the dtf.org community would be safe.

WOOOOOO.   ;D

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Re: Now what?!?! ... Monkeypox (seriously)
« Reply #31 on: May 24, 2022, 10:06:29 AM »
I read that it was passed through sexual contact, so I felt the majority of the dtf.org community would be safe.

Ok, you know what?

...

...Yes.
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« Reply #32 on: May 24, 2022, 10:16:14 AM »
I have a headache tonight will turn into, I do not want Monkeypox tonight.  :lol
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« Reply #33 on: May 24, 2022, 10:16:32 AM »
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« Reply #34 on: May 24, 2022, 10:20:08 AM »
Zy is impervious to diseases.  Built up immunity obviously. 
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