Posted on 07/30/2022 1:28:01 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Monkeypox cases continue to rise in Minnesota and across the country. There are now 5,189 infections nationwide across all but three states.
“I feel like I heard the word monkeypox and I got it and that’s how quickly it happened,” said Kyle Benter. “It’s spreading even faster now.”
Benter has been battling the virus for about two weeks, after having contact with a friend who also later tested positive.
“I actually got it from contact with literally one person,” said Benter. “A lot of people think its people out there having a ton of sex, touching a ton of people, going to clubs, going to parties, or whatever.”
The University of Minnesota graduate now lives in Chicago. He said symptoms started with exhaustion and chills but he didn’t initially think he was getting sick. During a routine doctor’s visit, his physician discovered a swollen lymph node. Benter said the lesions soon started appearing all over his body.
“Every day I was like ‘it’s going to get better, tomorrow it’s going to get better’,” he said. “And it gets worse and it gets worse.”
The pain was so severe, Benter went to the emergency room.
“I was like ‘Can I please for the love of God have something for the pain because it is so unbearable at this point, it’s excruciating it affects every aspect of my life, I can’t even sleep properly’,” he described.
Illinois has reported more than 400 cases, the third highest state in the country. The number of infections in Minnesota has grown from 19 to 33 cases within a week.
“The majority cases are among gay, bisexual and men who have sex with men,” said State Epidemiologist Dr. Ruth Lynfield. “It just happened that it is currently circulating in this group but it can happen to anybody that has close physical contact.”
According to the Minnesota Department of Health, the majority of cases are in the Twin Cities metro area. A case has now been identified in Greater Minnesota as well. The infections have been among men 18 to 55 years old, with a median age of 37 years old.
“If you or your partner have recently been sick, currently have been sick or have a new or unexplained rash, do not engage in close skin to skin contact, including sex, and see a healthcare provider,” said Dr. Lynfield.
The virus is spread through prolonged skin-to-skin contact, including direct contact with a monkeypox rash, scabs or bodily fluids from a person with monkeypox. According to Dr. Lynfield, it can also spread through contact with fabrics, including bedding, clothing, or towels, that were used by an infected person. In addition, respiratory droplets can pass the illness from one person to another.
There is a vaccine available for those who have been exposed or who are at a higher risk of exposure.
According to MDH, there are about 3,000 doses available statewide and another 7,600 doses are expected to be distributed in the next four to six weeks.
The two-dose Jynneos vaccine is provided by the federal government. It is not typically commercially available or stocked by healthcare providers, according to MDH.
“We know that that amount is not nearly enough for the tens of thousands of people estimated to be at high risk in Minnesota,” said Dr. Lynfield. “Vaccine alone cannot stop the spread of this outbreak, practicing preventive measures in addition to vaccine is critical.”
MDH is distributing the vaccines it receives from the federal government to local healthcare providers and health departments.
“I wish there were more places to give out vaccines,” said Jamieson Fang, who lives in Saint Paul.
Fang called Red Door Clinic in Minneapolis to schedule a vaccine after seeing new monkeypox cases in the Twin Cities, including among friends about a month ago.
“Since the disease kind of came into the United States, it’s been in the back of my mind but once some friends are telling me they got the virus in Minneapolis, I started to worry about the spread of the virus,” said Fang. “I just want to be proactive, protect myself and my friends from getting the virus.”
Fang got the first dose last week and will return for the second shot in about a month. According to health officials, the two doses are given about 28 days apart.
“The vaccine itself is quick and easy, not painful […] I have no side effects at all,” said Fang. “I don’t want anyone to suffer that kind of disease so be proactive and get vaccinated.”
Benter also encourages people to seek out a vaccine to prevent further spread.
“It’s traumatizing, it’s really, really bad,” said Benter of the illness. “It’s absolutely important to get out there and get the vaccine.”
If you are old enough to have been vaccinated for smallpox you already are. It works for monkeypox, too.
If not, you really don’t need it unless you’re a promiscuous gay man or a lab worker dealing with blood samples from monkeypox patients, or someone in your household has monkeypox. It’s really not all that easy to catch.
Two cases have been reported in children, and both reportedly came from the gay community:
“We have seen now two cases that have occurred in children. Both of those children are traced back to individuals who come from the men who have sex with men community — the gay men community,” Dr. Walensky told The Washington Post in a live interview July 22. “And so, when we have seen those cases in children, they have generally been what I call ‘adjacent’ to the community most at risk.”
Eat some more Weeners.
“airborne” ... “88 year old” ... “toddler”
I’ve read transmission is mostly dependent on wet fecal stains. I suspect it’s transmissible in air only with wet droplets, which typically dry out quick and lose any viable virus therein.
The 88 year old was probably in a (poorly cleaned/poorly staffed) nursing home, where other patients had diapers too, right?
Toddlers put their fingers everywhere, and then in their mouths. No mystery, if they lived with a sodomite.
It’s a sodomites disease. Save the short supply of vaccines for the sodomites! There’s a reason to call it Schlong Covid, or the SpankerPox.
Wonder if Benter has been CoupFlu vaxxed...
"literally one person". Not figurative. Literally.
Someone needs some education on the facts of life. Well, I guess that ship left already.
OMG! Homosexuals can catch monkeypox the same way people used to be afraid they could catch AIDS/HIV. What reality rewrite is the homosexual agenda planning?
You hit the nail. Good comment. Thanks.
It took me awhile to get the words and the movements to the song Levitating..and for old broads out there this will give you a mental and cardio workout if you sing while doing it..and even if you dont..the big girl on the right is still getting cardio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGrgWbMU6gQ&t
BUT when I tried to replicate the trippy Elton Song video...I feel like I am tripping out..but at least the moves aren’t hard to do...but damn I am laughing the whole time. Which is a good thing in the day of Biden Doom
“I feel like I heard the word monkeypox and I got it and that’s how quickly it happened,” said Kyle Benter.
So everybody, better make very sure you don’t hear the word “Monkeypox”.
Damn, what the **** is this? Oh, crap!
"Maybe stop sticking your pecker in another man’s @ss and this won’t happen"
Not a doctor, but I understand. the first symptom of monkey pox is an intense desire to sing the whole Liza Minnelli catalogue.
Which is why it has so far been mostly limited to homosexual men.
There is a large population of homosexual men in this country that, by their own estimates, sodomize or are sodomized by literally hundreds of different strangers per year. If you introduce any communicable disease to this group it will quickly and inevitably spread to thousands of homosexual men throughout the country.
If it is an easily communicable disease like COVID, then they will just accelerate the spread to the entire population. If it is a difficult to catch disease like AIDS or other venereal diseases, then the spread will be mostly limited to homosexual men.
Apparently, Monkeypox is somewhere in between. It is not a strictly venereal disease and can be spread without sexual contact, but it is not airborne and requires some physical contact.
I still have a smallpox vaccination scar on my arm from when I was vaccinated 60 years ago, but it was far preferable to getting smallpox. I got to experience measles, mumps, and chickenpox first hand, but was fortunate to have been born after the polio epidemics of the 1950s. When I was growing up, I knew kids who were a few years older than me that were not so fortunate.
In the history of mankind, we have managed to eradicate only one human virus, smallpox, and it took over 150 years of vaccinations to do it. We almost managed to eradicate polio after only 75 years of vaccinations, but cases kept popping up in the wild in Afghanistan. After Brandon abandoned Afghanistan to the Taliban, polio is likely to start spreading again, along with Afghanistan refugees.
My neighbor’s Mom had Polio. She was a Catholic School teacher.
Walked with assistance of canes and weird looking devices.
Always a reminder how devastating that virus was.
I’m not even sure they’re giving the Polio vaccine anymore.
Honestly our enemies could take advantage of vaccines we stopped giving.
Is it monkeypox...?
And so he wasn’t having “tons of sex.” And what about the one man he was having sex with? And the geometric expansion of all those who had sex with another guy and on and on and on.
Yes, you are right. True, it’s not airborne, and it’s not anywhere close to being as easy to catch as Covid (which is), but not as hard to catch as HIV/AIDS. For example, you can get it from handling the soiled bedding or laundry of an infected person with weeping pustules if you have a tiny skin break on your hand or you rub your eye soon afterward. Or if an infected person coughs or sneezes close to your face, especially if that person has pustules inside his mouth or throat.
In Africa, it was only seen in small children after smallpox vaccination ceased. As the population of unvaccinated people aged up, the ages of those who caught it went up. Still, it remained fairly rare, usually caught by people handling the carcasses of infected animals while preparing “bush meat” and sometimes spreading it to household members.
Then it was caught by a guy who went to that huge Pride rave on Gran Canaria which turned out to be a “super spreader” event, and some who caught it there next travelled to the big Fetish Festival in Antwerp or the big orgy at the gay sauna in Madrid, spreading it further. And so on it went. Which is why Pride Month became Monkeypox Month.
There have been other outbreaks outside Africa in the past decade or so, usually someone returning to the UK from Nigeria. These were all easily contained, and did not spread beyond Patient 0, other than occasional household members, and in one case, a healthcare worker with insufficient PPE who came into contact with the patient’s bodily fluids.
These people have taken long flights while symptomatic, yet no one caught it on the plane.
The largest previous outbreak was in the US, in 2003, the “prairie dog outbreak”. It was readily contained, but sadly mainly affected children:
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/outbreak/us-outbreaks.html
It was not until it got loose in a highly promiscuous segment of the gay population that it became difficult to contain. How to do tracing of contacts? “There was this guy from Sweden or Denmark, and another guy — I think he was from Germany but maybe it was Austria, one from Italy and ... Oh, names? You want names? How would I know?” What a nightmare.
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