According to the article, these monkeys were in transport from a NY airport to Florida (lucky FL), after being imported from Maritius (hope I remembered all this right), for laboratory use. I’m wondering why the rabies shots, Isn’t Fort Detrick where rare diseases are stored including smallpox?
A while ago there was a FR post regarding 3 cities in China being shut down with a hemorrhagic type disease. Any further word on that story? Whatever this monkey disease, it shouldn’t hurt to take zinc, Vitamin D3 and C to maintain general health. especially this winter. Remember, loss of taste and smell area signs of zinc deficiency.If any monkeys are still out there how well would they do with the cold front that is moving in and upcoming snow?
It is going to be interesting to see how our new Republican governer makes out with his no mask mandate. Northern Virginia Counties are mostly sticking with their mask mandates for schools. Parents there are mostly asking/demanding that masks be worn with some exceptions. Since the governor ran on the idea of listening to parents, this will be interesting. Virginia illness and death rates are somwhat lower than those for MD. Two states now with Republican governors. MD gov. wife has now been identified as Covid infected. Last week when I looked at Worldometers, Covid-19, US, Washington DC had lower death rate than MD and VA. Also I counted that 42 states had higher death rates than urban DC, In my travels I have seen that people in DC are pretty serious about their masks and/or social distance.
Regarding personal contacts, while in Chincoteague, PA neighbors on both sides of my cottage had survived Covid without hospitalization. My son in Puerto Rico, wife and 2 boys have had Covid without hospitalizations. My partner’s son, daughter-in-law, her parents, and their toddler have all had Covid, after all adults were vaccinated. My brother in upstate NY thinks he had Covid a year ago, he was subsequently vaccinated, in the fall he had a bad fall while trying to repair his roof, several breaks in upper leg, then could not get contractor to finish roof job, severely stressed and then went to hospital over holidays with severe cough and no sleep. He tested positive for both flu and Covid. They gave him benzonatate, avery effective drug that anesthetizes the respiratory apparatus to stop the cough reflex. He went to sleep immediately and spent 3 days in the hospital. https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/benzonatate-oral-route/precautions/drg-20062223?p=1
After reading several studies of various drugs which included a focus on Vitamin D3, I have concluded that the easiest way to make the population Covid safe is to make sure we all have Vigamin D levels in the optimum range. Almost no Covid hospitalized patients had acceptable D levels and NONE had opitimum range levels. Over 90% were deficient or insufficient. Levels below 20 ng/ml are considered deficient, below 30 ng/ml insufficient, and 50 to 80 ng/ml the optimum range. I was overjoyed when tested in Dec. by Kaiser Permanente to have 66 ng/ml. I have had 2 J & J shots, and so far as I know NO COVID, nor has my partner who usually takes the supplements I give him. Nevertheless, I do worry every time he goes to babysit his grandson, since both parents have exposure to the public a lot.
Correction: Chincoteague is in VA, not PA.
RE: After reading several studies of various drugs which included a focus on Vitamin D3, I have concluded that the easiest way to make the population Covid safe is to make sure we all have Vitamin D levels in the optimum range.
Ok, what is the optimum intake of Vitamin D one should have daily to fight against Covid?
I take a weekly supplement of 50,000 IU’s once a week. Surely that should be sufficient...
The only legal and publicly revealed repositories of smallpox after the 1976 treaty are Atlanta and Novosibirsk.
The treaty specified these would be destroyed 25 years after the last human case (2001), but then some people did something so we decided to keep them around, just in case.