Who had simians on their Bingo card for 2022? Monkeypox!
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Monkeypox Cases in U.S. and Europe Point to Widening Outbreak
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Wednesday said it was investigating a case of monkeypox in a man who recently traveled to Canada. Health officials in the Spanish capital Madrid are investigating 23 suspected cases of monkeypox. In Portugal, health authorities are probing five confirmed and at least 15 suspected cases. Those add to an outbreak in the U.K., where authorities are tracking nine confirmed cases and one probable case.
“It’s an unprecedented situation,” said Jimmy Whitworth, professor of international public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Monkeypox has only rarely been detected outside West and Central Africa. When it is, the person has normally recently traveled from those regions.
Monkeypox is a viral disease that circulates mainly among rodents in West and Central Africa. Most cases in humans aren’t deadly and are typically detected in people who have had direct contact with an infected animal, according to the World Health Organization.
Of the nine confirmed U.K. cases, eight appear to have contracted the virus in Britain. The first, confirmed on May 7, had recently traveled from Nigeria, where monkeypox is known to occur.
Since the first case was identified, three further, unlinked, groups have been confirmed. One is a household in London with two confirmed cases and one probable case. Another is a group of four men who appear to have contracted the virus in London, one of whom has since traveled to Newcastle, nearly 300 miles north of the capital. On Wednesday, the UKHSA said another two cases had been identified, one in London and the other elsewhere in southeast England.
So far, public-health workers have linked only two of those men by a common contact. They have found no links between the initial case and any of the subsequent cases.
“We’re struggling to put this together,” Dr. Whitworth said. He isn’t directly involved in the U.K Health Security Agency investigation but is following it closely.
Public-health researchers are conducting contact tracing to unearth any links between the cases and to prevent further transmission. Genetic sequencing of the viral samples would also help determine whether the cases can be connected to a single source, Dr. Whitworth said.
The virus, which is spread by close contact but isn’t a sexually-transmitted disease, appears to be spreading in the U.K. among men who have sex with men. The four most recently confirmed cases there were all in men who have sex with men, according to the UKHSA. The Massachusetts case was in a man who has sex with men, according to a spokesman for the public-health department.
The Madrid Ministry of Health didn’t disclose the sexual orientation of the cases there. Portugal’s Ministry of Health said all cases under investigation there are in men, most of whom are young, but didn’t disclose their sexual orientation.
Human-to-human transmission of the virus is known to occur, but is less common. The virus isn’t especially infectious between humans as it requires very close contact to spread, and people are only contagious when they have symptoms, Dr. Whitworth said. Still, it could spread within a close-knit community, he added.
Symptoms of monkeypox include fever, headache, muscle aches, chills and exhaustion. A chicken pox-like rash can develop, beginning on the face then spreading to other parts of the body, such as the hands and feet. The rash eventually forms scabs, which later fall off. Most people recover after a week or two although the disease can be deadly.
Sporadic cases of monkeypox have been detected in the U.K. in recent years, all in people who had recently traveled from Nigeria or were their close contacts. Last year, the U.S. reported two separate cases of the virus in people who had traveled from Nigeria. Singapore and Israel have also reported travel-related cases of monkeypox in recent years.
In 2003, some 47 people in six Midwestern states were confirmed or suspected to have caught monkeypox from pet prairie dogs that had been exposed to an imported animal. None of those cases went on to infect other people.
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The World Health Organization was holding an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox, a viral infection more common to west and central Africa, after over 100 cases were confirmed or suspected in Europe.
In what Germany described as the largest outbreak in Europe ever, cases have been reported in at least nine countries – Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom - as well as the United States, Canada and Australia.
Spain reported 24 new cases on Friday, mainly in the Madrid region where the regional government closed a sauna linked to the majority of infections. read more
A hospital in Israel was treating a man in his 30s who is displaying symptoms consistent with the disease after recently arriving from Western Europe.
First identified in monkeys, the disease typically spreads through close contact and has rarely spread outside Africa, so this series of cases has triggered concern.
However, scientists do not expect the outbreak to evolve into a pandemic like COVID-19, given the virus does not spread as easily as SARS-COV-2.
Monkeypox is usually a mild viral illness, characterised by symptoms of fever as well as a distinctive bumpy rash.
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@Larry said in Who had simians on their Bingo card for 2022? Monkeypox!:
I heard that it's not easily spread, though. Don't know if that's true or not.
For now. The more cases there are, the better the chances that'll change.
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Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
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Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
@Ivorythumper yuck!
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Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
@Ivorythumper said in Who had simians on their Bingo card for 2022? Monkeypox!:
Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
You, sir, are right.
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Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
@Ivorythumper said in Who had simians on their Bingo card for 2022? Monkeypox!:
we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox
Reminds me of a story I heard on NPR in the mid 1980s. Excuse me if I've told this before...
As HIV was running rampant through the gay community, there was a story about "The Meat Market." The Meat Market was a gay bar in New York, in the meat packing district where one could go, have anonymous sex with as many partners as you wished.
They interviewed a worker in the packing plant who said something along the lines of, "You know, it's really disgusting when you walk out, having finished your shift at 6 AM, and see two guys having sex on the hood of your car."
NPR also commented that there was a sign above the entrance of the club that said, "FUCK AIDS! GOOD SEX NOW!!!"
(Side note: Does anyone think that NPR would run a story like that today?)
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Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
@Ivorythumper said in Who had simians on their Bingo card for 2022? Monkeypox!:
Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
Pride cometh before the fall…
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Side note: we’re definitely on the steep downslope of civilization. Dude boasts of going to a pride event, having sex with multiple men, getting gonorrhoea and monkey pox, describes his anorectal lesions, complaining that the medical system is so unfair, and brags of his privilege, and a major international newspaper publishes it…. while the same media machine assures us that it’s not a gay problem.
It’s a bit jarring the bluntness at times but mostly I read this thinking “Jesus the public health people are screwing up again”
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It’s a bit jarring the bluntness at times but mostly I read this thinking “Jesus the public health people are screwing up again”
@jon-nyc Indeed -- just release the TPOXX widely and generously.
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Here's what I don't understand...The gay advocates have done a very good job in the larger cities such as NYC and San Francisco, shouting from the rooftops that this disease is spreading because of promiscuous sex in the gay community.
And a large part of that community seems not to give a damn.
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