Posted on 08/16/2024 5:25:39 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Swedish health authorities announced the first case of the highly infectious mpox just a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global emergency for the outbreaks in Africa.
"In this case, a person was infected during a stay in the part of Africa where there is a major outbreak of (the more infectious mpox formerly known as monkeypox)," the Public Health Agency of Sweden announced on Thursday.
Magnus Gisslen, a state epidemiologist with the Swedish health agency, said the person had been treated and given "rules of conduct."
"The fact that a patient with mpox is treated in the country does not affect the risk to the general population," Swedish officials said
The announcement of an infected resident in the Scandinavian country comes just a day after WHO declared the mpox outbreak a global emergency.
The U.N. health agency said there have been more than 14,000 cases and 524 deaths this year, which already exceed last year's figures.
So far, more than 96% of all cases and deaths are in Congo....
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But they’re not locking down for HIV...
Go figure.
More fearmongering. It’s always something with the left.
Th worst part about getting monkey pox is the constant craving for bananas and the flinging of dung.
WHO could not see this coming before the election?
Anyone else continuing to wonder about yhe safety of blood supplies. Here's yet another reason.
Geez! Hope nothing untoward happens in chicongo next week. May fauxnocchio will be put back in service to man the helm to see the country through another health emergency.
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Gotta be ridin’ dirty to catch the pox, no?
Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering how many people contracting monkeypox have been previously vaxxed with an orthopoxvirus vectored CoupFlu vaccine...
Inquiring minds want to know...
diversity and open borders is really working out great for Sweden /s
Clinical Conundrums: Differentiating Monkeypox From Similarly Presenting Infections
See for me, the worst part would be the gay orgies where it gets transmitted.
The wonders of Diversity?
So the infected are formerly known as monkeys…
Laughing at them calling monkey pox “highly contagious”.
In the western world, the sole source of transmission is gay sex.
Pretty easy to avoid.
What "MONKEY POX" actually is: "MONkEY POX."
It, like AIDS in 1980, started and spread across the US in the homo community whose “deathstyle” we are supposed to accept as “normal”.
Awesome! (Saved for future use).
Stop boo-foo-ing!
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