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Spread of Deadlier Mpox Strain in Africa Has CDC Concerned
US News ^ | 05/16/2024 | Healthday

Posted on 05/16/2024 2:23:46 PM PDT by DFG

The central African nation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is battling a record number of cases of mpox, fueled by a strain with a higher death rate than the variant that spread in Europe and America in 2022.

Getting the DRC outbreak under control, and containing it to within that country, is imperative, experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report issued Thursday.

The spread of the lethal clade I strain of mpox "raises concerns that the virus could spread to other countries and underscores the importance of coordinated, urgent global action to support DRC’s efforts to contain the virus," said a team led by CDC research biologist Christina Hutson.

The strain of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) that spread from Africa to Europe and North America two years ago was known as clade II.

While painful and sometimes severe, the illness resulted in a death rate ranging from 0.1% to 3.6% of cases, according to various studies.

But clade 1 mpox is more lethal, and deaths from the illness have ranged anywhere from 1.4% to 10% of patients, Hutson's team noted.

The ongoing outbreak of clade I mpox in the DRC has already claimed many victims: The DRC reports "multiple provincial outbreaks" occurring between the beginning of 2023 and April 14, 2024, with an estimated total of 19,919 cases and 975 deaths -- meaning that about 1 in every 20 patients have died.

This outbreak is also perhaps the most widespread: "During 2023 and 2024, clade I mpox cases were reported from 25 of 26 provinces and, for the first time, from the capital city of Kinshasa," the CDC team noted.

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cdc; congo; gaydisease; migration; monkeypox; mpox; pandemic
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To: DFG

btt


21 posted on 05/16/2024 3:10:03 PM PDT by GailA (Land Grabs, Poisoned Food, KILL the COWS, Bidenomics=BIDEN DEPRESSION. STAGNATION)
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To: DFG

Soon to be spread among the homopedophile crowd.


22 posted on 05/16/2024 3:15:20 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: DFG

keep effing around....isn’t that the mark of insanity, doing the same thing, expecting a different result?


23 posted on 05/16/2024 3:21:28 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: DFG

24 posted on 05/16/2024 3:24:50 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did <img src="you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: dragnet2

Should call it homo ass sex pox.


25 posted on 05/16/2024 3:27:40 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

But, but...you will need innoculations to prevent them!!!


26 posted on 05/16/2024 3:41:11 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Climate cultists think we should go back to the good times when people starved)
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To: DFG

CONvid vax booster 27.250 will stop it. Oh, and the heartbreak of psoriasis as well.


27 posted on 05/16/2024 3:55:17 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: DFG

Had this been announced way, way back when the CDC had respect, it might have made a difference. Today?
Bwahahbahahahahahah! They’re real CDC doctors. They stayed at the Holiday Inn.


28 posted on 05/16/2024 3:59:41 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: DFG

Buried in the middle of the article...

“...Luckily, there is an mpox vaccine, manufactured under the brand name Jynneos. It’s a two-dose regimen, with shots given about a month apart...”

What this is really about no doubt.


29 posted on 05/16/2024 3:59:56 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

More on the vaxx, which was approved in 2019. Interesting timing...

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-live-non-replicating-vaccine-prevent-smallpox-and-monkeypox


30 posted on 05/16/2024 4:01:58 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: DFG

Mpox, the virus formerly know as Monkeypox until the lefties banned the latter term (not wanting to stigmatize any of their sexually deviant buddies).


31 posted on 05/16/2024 4:19:54 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: NorthMountain

No, it was a boy, a greyhound if I remember correctly.


32 posted on 05/16/2024 4:36:52 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: MplsSteve

The last attempt at monkey pox was a bust...
Keep trying, tho...

Yall blew it with Wuhan..if there ain’t people coming down the street calling “Bring out yer dead!”, I ain’t playin.


33 posted on 05/16/2024 4:42:09 PM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: DFG
...underscores the importance of coordinated, urgent global action...
Ah there it is, the reason it's in the news at all. A new, useful scare tactic.
Need not read any further.

34 posted on 05/16/2024 4:50:55 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: packagingguy

Ewww ... gay bestiality.


35 posted on 05/16/2024 5:30:21 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: DFG

Monkeypox (mpox) has disproportionately affected gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM);


36 posted on 05/16/2024 5:47:21 PM PDT by daydreamer
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To: DFG

Poofters can’t stop spreading disease and filth. Fact.


37 posted on 05/16/2024 5:51:03 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: DFG

38 posted on 05/16/2024 5:54:05 PM PDT by Allegra (Toss a zeeper in the Dnieper)
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To: DFG

[[Spread of Deadlier Mpox Strain in Africa Has CDC Concerned]]

Why are they concerned? Are they all queer?


39 posted on 05/16/2024 7:15:20 PM PDT by Bob434
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