Posted on 06/15/2022 3:48:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
World Health Organization experts are debating whether the rare virus's global spread should be considered a public health emergency.
MASSACHUSETTS — Tuesday afternoon the Massachusetts Department of Public Health confirmed a fourth case of monkeypox in the state.
The particular patient is an adult male who is in isolation, health officials said. Testing was initially completed last Monday at the State Public Health Laboratory in Jamaica Plain and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be handling the remainder of the testing.
On Sunday, health officials confirmed two more cases of monkeypox in Massachusetts, as more than 50 have now been confirmed across the country and 14 cases have been confirmed in New York alone.
"Most of these people have had mild cases, have not been hospitalized, and have recovered on their own," the update states.
But even mild monkeypox illness can yield itchy and painful sores, health officials noted.
The CDC and DPH workers are currently looking to identify anyone who could have come into contact with the patient while he was infectious and didn't know it.
"While we are in this current outbreak, and even though monkeypox remains rare, people are encouraged to be mindful of their health," Department of Public Health State Epidemiologist Dr. Catherine Brown said in a statement. "If you have any symptoms, and especially if you have a rash, it is best to avoid prolonged physical contact with anyone until you are well."
Monkeypox typically spreads by skin-to-skin contact or contact with contaminated clothing or bedding. It's rarely fatal, but patients remain in isolation for safety.
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Another STD I don’t have to worry about...
Just eradicate the monkeys...
Case solved...
I find it interesting that so far the main stream media don’t want to describe the demographics of the monkeypox infected. Early in the Covid-19 spread, there were news reports of surges of Covid-19 infected in nursing homes or ocean cruise ships. As far as I know, there have been no mention of the male/female demographics of the infected. The main stream media has been hiding information from the public.
ObamaPox!!
Leave the monkeys out of this!
Another ruse for massive mail out ballot voter fraud.
Just in time for mid term elections.
But the fag disease police are interested in you.
For a few hundred queers? Really? It’s not even fatal in most cases. Only drawback is that it makes it easy to identify the perverts.
It’ll be only two weeks to flatten the curve. Then all non-gays will be required to wear masks.
Will this be the latest “crisis “?
Neither was covid...never let a crisis go to waste...even if you have to fabricate the crisis. Ps: most of my markets are in ground zero. JP? Surprise! Not.
Lots of Gays doing the “A” thing in Taxachsetts.
priDEMONth
Faggsachussetts
Bunch of mAssholes.
Poofterpox
yield itchy and painful sores,
Don’t scratch your swizzle wit da wrong mon-key.
HomoPox
promiscuity should be declared an international emergency - many of the disasters in history have been caused by it. this could just be the latest.
Didn't biteme just surrender our sovereignty to WHO?
Time for someone to write “The Myth of Heterosexual Monkeypox.”
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