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To: CatHerd
"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.

58 posted on 05/18/2022 5:16:15 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid

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.


60 posted on 05/18/2022 5:36:32 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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