Posted on 07/22/2022 7:37:07 PM PDT by Morgana
Two children have tested positive for monkeypox in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed Friday.
One is a toddler from California; the other is in an infant who is not a U.S. resident and was 'transiting through' Washington D.C. Neither had contact with each other.
Health officials said both children were 'doing well', but warned children under the age of eight are at high risk of severe monkeypox.
It is thought both children likely caught the virus from 'household contacts'.
Dr Rochelle Walensky said the children both had contact with gay or bisexual men — the community where most cases are being detected in the current outbreak.
It was not clear when they caught the virus, or what symptoms they suffered.
They are receiving the antiviral TPOXX, which can help stop an infection in its tracks by interfering with the virus's maturation.
They are the first cases among children to be detected in America. There are currently more than 2,500 cases of monkeypox in the U.S. — the second biggest outbreak in the world behind only Spain with 3,000.
A boy under 10 years old tested positive for the virus in the Netherlands in June, as was revealed this week. The Dutch child suffered more than 20 red lesions on his face, forearms and thighs but had no fever or swollen lymph nodes — with the infection mostly clearing within a week.
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All I’m saying for those who can understand, they are trying to fix a dam while doing a rain dance on the other side of the dam about to break up.
There is a limit to science, medicine and technology to fix stupid.
A treatable condition that put government and media will now turn into an existential crisis like the COVID flu.
Ugh.
“It’s clean, the person’s decent.”
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