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US health officials: Monkeypox likely spreading by close, intimate contact
gulfnews.com ^ | May 22, 2022

Posted on 05/22/2022 8:57:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin

link to Africa, where the disease is most commonly found, said the officials, who spoke without being identified as a condition of participating in the call. While the risk to the general public is low, health workers are being alerted to monitor possible cases and use protective equipment when needed, they said.

Unlike the COVID-19 virus, which is spread through the air and respiratory droplets, spreading monkeypox requires much closer contact. Sharing bedding, clothing or a toothbrush with an infected person would create greater risk, the officials said on the call.

In Massachusetts, where the one US case has been confirmed, state health officials are interviewing the patient to find out who they may have had contact with. Contract tracing will be a vital part of the response to the monkeypox outbreak, the senior health officials said.

The US recorded two cases of monkeypox last year in travelers who had recently visited Nigeria.

Monkeypox is significantly less dangerous than smallpox. Symptoms typically include fever, chills, and rashes or lesions on the face or genitals. The strain currently circulating is believed to kill about 1% of those infected, though no one has died in this current outbreak.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: analstd; faggotpox; homosexualagenda; lgbtq; mediabias; monkeypox; monkeypoxstd; scandal; sodomites; sodomy
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To: BenLurkin
“Monkey pox” is irrelevant.
And its not going to save Dementia Joe and the Dems from getting clobbered in November.
21 posted on 05/22/2022 9:10:07 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: BenLurkin

Another bio-weapon. Wake up, America.


22 posted on 05/22/2022 9:10:11 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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To: Newtoidaho

DEMOCRATS! They gladly f*ck anything for votes.


23 posted on 05/22/2022 9:11:39 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m so relieved - I was afraid monkey pox was brought to us by open borders.


24 posted on 05/22/2022 9:11:43 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: BenLurkin

This will really put the anus on national health officials to get to the bottom of the outbreak.


25 posted on 05/22/2022 9:14:05 AM PDT by BusterDog
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To: Newtoidaho

Well, in answer to your question, someone apparently does (copulate with monkeys). Cousin Earl has long had an affinity for farm animals. But even he draws the line at monkeys.


26 posted on 05/22/2022 9:14:36 AM PDT by donozark (Masochists for Biden. 2024.)
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To: BusterDog

I see what you did there.


27 posted on 05/22/2022 9:14:43 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I pledge allegiance to Hedy Lamarr)
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To: BiglyCommentary

It is still extremely rare with very few cases world wide so,far.


28 posted on 05/22/2022 9:15:31 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: donozark

Your tagline perfectly describes democrats.


29 posted on 05/22/2022 9:15:36 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I pledge allegiance to Hedy Lamarr)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s hard to find in the enemedia, but the EU health authorities appear to have zeroed in on the source of the current outbreak.

The daily caller has the story. https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/20/monkeypox-belgium-outbreak-gay-fetish-festival-darklands-antwerp/

No surprises, but a problem for the media, and the Dems in that one of their core constituencies is too obviously implicated. Going to be hard to weaponize the politics around this, but they will try.


30 posted on 05/22/2022 9:16:16 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: BiglyCommentary

My Uncle used to live in Tampa Bay, but he moved to Las Vegas.


31 posted on 05/22/2022 9:16:45 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I pledge allegiance to Hedy Lamarr)
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To: BenLurkin

“Contact tracing is vital”

I see where this is heading…round up those gays.


32 posted on 05/22/2022 9:18:37 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: BenLurkin

"You said minkey."

33 posted on 05/22/2022 9:18:56 AM PDT by Ken H (Trump /DeSantis)
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To: BenLurkin

I guess letting millions of Africans into Europe and America was just another way to kill us off.


34 posted on 05/22/2022 9:20:13 AM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: Newtoidaho

> Honestly, who f*ks a monkey?

You’d be surprised.


35 posted on 05/22/2022 9:22:18 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Newtoidaho

Do you have a leecance for that meenkey?

36 posted on 05/22/2022 9:24:42 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: BenLurkin

Democrats to accuse Republicans of racism if Republicans say the word “monkeypox” too many times in 3.....2......1


37 posted on 05/22/2022 9:26:47 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: Bob434

I was just spoofing off your auto spell correct typo.


38 posted on 05/22/2022 9:28:16 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: BenLurkin

I’m so relieved - I was afraid monkey pox was brought to us by open borders.


39 posted on 05/22/2022 9:28:25 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: BiglyCommentary

“mostly the bay community are the ones spreading it.”


40 posted on 05/22/2022 9:29:15 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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