Posted on 05/18/2022 2:40:16 PM PDT by billorites
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) today confirmed a single case of monkeypox virus infection in an adult male with recent travel to Canada. Initial testing was completed late Tuesday at the State Public Health Laboratory in Jamaica Plain and confirmatory testing was completed today at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). DPH is working closely with the CDC, relevant local boards of health, and the patient’s health care providers to identify individuals who may have been in contact with the patient while he was infectious. This contact tracing approach is the most appropriate given the nature and transmission of the virus. The case poses no risk to the public, and the individual is hospitalized and in good condition.
Monkeypox is a rare but potentially serious viral illness that typically begins with flu-like illness and swelling of the lymph nodes and progresses to a rash on the face and body. Most infections last 2-to-4 weeks. In parts of central and west Africa where monkeypox occurs, people can be exposed through bites or scratches from rodents and small mammals, preparing wild game, or having contact with an infected animal or possibly animal products. The virus does not spread easily between people; transmission can occur through contact with body fluids, monkeypox sores, items that have been contaminated with fluids or sores (clothing, bedding, etc.), or through respiratory droplets following prolonged face-to-face contact.
No monkeypox cases have previously been identified in the United States in 2022; Texas and Maryland each reported a case in 2021 in people with recent travel to Nigeria. Since early May 2022, the United Kingdom has identified 9 cases of monkeypox; the first case had recently traveled to Nigeria. None of the other cases have reported recent travel. UK health officials report that the most recent cases in the UK are in men who have sex with men.
Based on findings of the Massachusetts case and the recent cases in the UK, clinicians should consider a diagnosis of monkeypox in people who present with an otherwise unexplained rash and 1) traveled, in the last 30 days, to a country that has recently had confirmed or suspected cases of monkeypox 2) report contact with a person or people with confirmed or suspected monkeypox, or 3) is a man who reports sexual contact with other men. This clinical guidance is consistent with recommendations from UK health officials and US federal health officials, based on identified cases.
Suspected cases may present with early flu-like symptoms and progress to lesions that may begin on one site on the body and spread to other parts. Illness could be clinically confused with a sexually transmitted infection like syphilis or herpes, or with varicella zoster virus.
I would be very, very afraid if I were still living in Massghanistan as about half the inhabitants there are monkeys.
Yep!
🙊 ping.
Oh, nooooooees. 🙈
Yet the monkeypox is crossing our borders unvetted! What could go wrong?
“Well, to be fair, straights can catch it if they eat ‘bush meat’ while on holiday in Africa.”
While I’m sure that’s possible, apparently 100% of the “victims” of the current outbreak are male homos, which is why that is one of the required “checkboxes” for a diagnosis detailed in this letter.
I still can barely see my dime sized scar from 50 years ago.
Question: Is this going to be the next big pandemic scare?
(Because I DID get COVID, which wasn’t that bad although I was pretty sick, and I sure as h3ll don’t want to get freaking monkeypox, AND I don’t want whatever vaccine they’re gonna push as the solution for it. Something tells me they’re going to be rather more forceful and lockdown-y about something called monkeypox.)
Quick! Everyone line up for your Pfizer vaccines...
Let me guess..the cure is mail in ballots, lots and lots of mail in ballots
Speak for yourself. I refuse to grow up because growin up leads to growin old and then to dyin :)
Well there’s some good news.
More good news, there is a new Smallpox vaccine that has been developed! Yep, got FDA approval juuust last year.
Now why would anyone go through that insanely expensive process when:
1. There is already a perfectly viable vaccine
2. The one available works so good, it eradicated the disease
3. The disease has been eradicated
Hmmm... one for the ages.
Is the new one perhaps a mRNA vaccine? They seem bounded and determined to get mRNA into every body. Why is that?
I agree.
I think it will be worse. I think the line will be, get the new vax as a preventative measure... keep your community and family safe by doing your part.
They don’t even have to have a lot of people getting it, just news coverage of a few unlucky bustards.
A disease with 10% death rate is going to get some attention.
The public would support rounding up non-compliers for sure.
I’m not sure if it is MRNA... I’ll have to look into that.
The company that developed it has been sitting on it, then this morning they sold the rights to some other company. It’s really weird. And so is the timing.
I would have held onto it to see where the monkeypox thing goes.
Think we’ll see bans on well... hmm ...polite company.. sex.... the butt kind?
The article says that’s how it’s being spread.
That’s my guess. Something to go with their HIV.
“Think we’ll see bans on well... hmm ...polite company.. sex.... the butt kind?”
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Isn’t buttsex covered by the 14th Amendment?
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