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.
5/18/22
“The WHO To Discuss Global Pandemic Treaty At World Health Assembly May 22-28”
Just in time for the midterm elections.
I’d bet that they’ll use this as an excuse to shut everything down and force mail-in ballots again.
The curveball: The existing vaccine will be ‘horse pasted’ into non-existence.
Drop Boxes needed for the 2024 election!
I’m actually expecting a hemorrhagic fever to be the next big scare shutdown ‘collapse the system’ disease to come our way. Look for that around 2023.
I would say STOP SH1TtING me but unfortunately this is true.
Come on ev'rybody we've got quilting to do....
Mr K (not the one on this forum) has so far been essential to the functioning of the infrastructure, and his boss is extra cool, so he has stayed working and not had to get a shot. Thank you, Jesus. I’m unemployed right now and - just so you’ll know - I stopped getting flu shots a LONG time ago. Mr K says he will definitely not get any kind of shot in the foreseeable future, no matter who’s telling him to.
Monkeypox. DO NOT GET A TEST FOR IT. DO NOT GO NEAR A CLINIC OFFERING TESTS OR IMMUNIZATION. LIQUIDATE YOUR ASSETS AND FIND A PLACE OF SAFETY.
DARPA would... because smallpox samples are held in unfriendly countries and because technology is getting to the point where a virus can be recreated by non governmental rogue maniacs (like an eco-terrorist group that thinks depopulation would save the earth).
Also the original smallpox vaccine caused myocarditis and pericarditis at a rate of 58 cases per 100,000 vaccinees in the eradication program.
Well that does it, we will have to have 100% mail in ballots now!
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It’s barely May get a grip it’s too early for the “midterm” hysteria. What this looks like is a strain of monkey pox that has the ability to jump person to person. That’s bad real bad if it has the same 10 to 20% death rate of normal monkey pox. Given that it’s already in Spain ,Portugal the UK and Canada with community spread confirmed in the UK, and Spain with 50 now in isolation. Covid has a CFR of 1.8% to .09% compare that to generic monkey pox with 10% or more you can see the potential for a world wide event. The key here is contact tracing and isolation for those who even had passing contact for at least 14 days break the chain of infection early a d break it hard.
I don’t think we’ll see a worldwide event. Unlike Covid, which spreads through the air, monkeypox is only spread through bodily fluids. We’re seeing cases of it now because it’s now affecting young adults vs small children. Gay guy picks it up in Africa, goes back to UK or Canada or wherever, and infects his er, sexual contacts. Who may in turn infect theirs.
The incubation period is fairly short, so health authorities can trace and isolate contacts after case 0 shows symptoms before it spreads very far.
We may see small outbreaks here and there in the “gay community” but it’s not going to be a major epidemic like Covid. The only real danger is to gays and bisexuals who um, have “very close contact” with a man who just travelled to Africa and caught it there — and healthcare staff who care for them (the latter can take appropriate precautions of course).
“The number of cases has increased at a minimum of 10-fold and median age at presentation has evolved from young children (4 years old) in the 1970s to young adults (21 years old) in 2010–2019. This may be related to the cessation of smallpox vaccinations, which provided some cross-protection against monkeypox. The case fatality rate for the Central African clade was 10.6% versus 3.6% for the West African clade.”
That’s where I’m at too. Never used to be this way, but no more shots for me for the foreseeable future either.
It seems safe and might have been properly tested. But after watching the entire worlds medical and government apparatus lie like dogs, cut corners, cover things up, delete data, apply force.... all for no medical reason - I simply don’t trust the lot of them.
“...“Among other things, the organization will get the right to manage and control the movement of people, imprison them, and restrict them in any way they choose, to demand that they undergo such and other treatments,” he wrote. “The WHO will supervise all objects, facilities, and equipment: suitcases, containers, buildings, bags, etc., and collect information of any kind they want, all under the heading of an international emergency – which will now be solely at their discretion. And to be precise – at the discretion of only one person – the organization's secretary-general.”..”
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