First 2022 U.S. Case of Monkeypox Confirmed In Massachusetts, Health Officials Say

Breaking911 ^ | May 18, 2022

[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.

[TexasFreeper2009]

its starting to sweep through the gay community like AIDS did.

[BusterDog]

50 cases in Madrid.

https://elpais-com.translate.goog/sociedad/2022-05-18/madrid-eleva-a-23-el-numero-de-casos-sospechosos-de-sufrir-viruela-de-los-monos-atendidos-la-region.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

[TexasFreeper2009]

smh

this is what happens when you insist entering an exit.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The fags will try to spread it to the general population so the CDC will declare an emergency as they did AIDS years ago.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

BusterDog :" 50 cases in Madrid."

Seriously ? Yesterday it was 7 suspected cases in Spain

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10828715/Monkeypox-hits-Europe-Portugal-says-five-men-virus-Spain-probes-eight-suspected-cases.htm

[BusterDog]

Yeah, 50. #monkeypox is the #2 trending topic on Twitter.

It’s on like Donkey Kong.

[BusterDog]

BREAKING: Canada reports 13 suspected cases of monkeypox, all in Montréal - Radio-Canada— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) May 18, 2022

[rxsid]

This does look like its starting in the gay community of European men (who traveled from Africa)...however, it may not be limited to them as several "bi-sexual" males are infected.

 

Monkeypox: What we know about the smallpox-like virus spreading in the UK, Portugal and Spain

Portuguese health authorities on Wednesday confirmed five cases of monkeypox - ... marking an unusual outbreak in Europe of a disease typically limited to Africa.

Portugal's General Directorate for Health added it was investigating another 15 suspected cases and that all were identified this month around the capital Lisbon.

British health authorities said on Monday they had identified four cases of monkeypox infections in London among gay and bisexual men, bringing the total to seven. Spain’s Health Ministry said on Wednesday it had also detected eight suspected cases of monkeypox that still needed to be confirmed.

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Where is monkeypox typically found?

Human monkeypox primarily causes outbreaks in the tropical rainforest regions of Central and West Africa and is not typically seen in Europe.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had the first recorded human case of monkeypox in 1970.

Since then, cases have been reported in 11 African countries: Benin, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, the Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, and South Sudan.

The first outbreak of monkeypox reported outside of Africa was linked to the importation of infected mammals in 2003 in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

More recently, in 2018 and 2019, two travellers from the United Kingdom, one from Israel, and one from Singapore, all with travel history in Nigeria, were diagnosed with monkeypox following a large outbreak there, according to Europe’s own health agency, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC),

How do you catch monkeypox?

You can catch the virus from the bite or scratch of an infected animal, by eating bush meat, being in direct contact with an infected human or touching contaminated bedding or clothing.

The virus enters the body through skin lesions, the respiratory tract, or the mucous membranes (the eyes, nose, or mouth).

Human-to-human transmission is thought to occur primarily through large respiratory droplets, which generally cannot travel more than a few feet, so prolonged face-to-face contact would be needed.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/05/18/monkeypox-what-we-know-so-far-about-the-smallpox-like-virus-detected-in-the-uk

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Hang the guilty. Free everyone else.

[Vermont Lt]

I think that was Gary Hart.

[Vermont Lt]

Different kind of virus.

The pox stuff is usually pretty straight forward without mutations. There has never been a successful vaccine against a coronavirus. Ever.

[null and void]

Is this the results of another Fauci funded ‘gain of function’ research project?

[Sarcazmo]

Good point, the ‘tards can find anything in there.

Too bad they can’t seem to find the right of the people to keep and bear arms!

[CatHerd]

More here on the Montreal outbreak:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/monkeypox-canada-quebec-europe-us-outbreak-1.6458523

At least there are no worries for us older folks who had our smallpox vaccine.

[Dick Vomer]

WELL at least we know that none of the 100s of thousands of illegal immigrants are carrying that illness.....

[reformedliberal]

I think they take advantage of any opportunity to inculcate fear. With the current situation of young people advertising their sexual proclivities, likely the population of *men who have sex with men* has increased and actually includes prominent people.

That said, the hints being dropped pre-Ukraine and pre-SCOTUS leak indicated filaviruses like the hemorrhagic fevers. Hoping the Yellow Fever shot we had in order to travel back in 1975 is still good. Neither of us has received anything besides small pox, oral polio and several DTAP (or however it is written), since there is no single tetanus anymore.

I think there is a tincture from a purple pitcher plant being made/sold on handcrafted ethno-botanical sites touted for smallpox. Might help with monkeypox, idk.

[OKSooner]

Be very afraid.

[rxsid]

"At least there are no worries for us older folks who had our smallpox vaccine"

Perhaps.

The "CDC" doesn't state explicitly which smallpox vaccine they refer to here (newer ACAM200 or Jynneos?), but it's most likely the two newest vaccines. According to the article, at least 85% effectiveness (assuming newest vaccines). [1]

Recent scientific paper:

It is estimated that over 70% of the world’s population is no longer protected against smallpox, and through cross-immunity, to closely related orthopox viruses such as monkeypox. Monkeypox is now a re-emerging disease.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X2030579X (Volume 38, Issue 33, 14 July 2020, Pages 5077-5081)

Being a virus, it's susceptible to mutating as well. From your linked article:

""It does seem to be spreading, at least from the information that we have so far, through human to human contact," she told CBC News.

"Which means that it's either that it's a more transmissible variant of monkeypox than any that we've seen before between humans, or there are behaviours that are associated with increased transmission."

Don't worry though, it's ramping up just in time for the mid-terms.

With covid largely flaming out with most of the population, they need the next virus to be even scarier so they can go forward with another round of lockdowns and mail in ballot only elections.

[bgill]

Don’t have sex with gay men and don’t go to Africa. Simple enough.

[CatHerd]

I think we can guess what the “behaviours that are associated with increased transmission” are. Being a lady, I won’t be engaging in those behaviors.

Seriously, though, I don’t expect it to go far beyond small isolated outbreaks in the gay community. Monkeypox has a rather short incubation period and it sounds like they’re on top of it with tracing etc. after the first few cases appeared. It’s not like HIV/AIDS where it takes years after transmission before symptoms show up.