Do you remember they were quoting mortality of 1-10%?
Well, I just read an article: It turns out that it's 10%. The reason for the lower number was in population who did have the smallpox vaccine. In unvaccinated people it's 10%.
"A study of 338 cases from the 1980s in Congo found a fatality rate of 9.8 percent for people who hadn't received the smallpox vaccine."
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0603/10monkeypox.html Your posts are very misleading. First of all, we are talking about vaccinated vs. unvaccinated people. Fine. The mortality rate is higher in non-vaccinated populations. What your numbers leave out, or maybe I should say, do not consider, is that both populations reside in some of the most backward, undeveloped countries where any disease is going to have a higher mortality rate then in a country like ours that has a vastly better heath care system, healthier people, food, etc.
AIDS runs rampant throughout Africa. A hell of a lot of immune-compromised people over there. Think that might contribute to a higher mortality rate?
Let me ask you this: If this disease runs its course in the first-ever outbreak in this hemisphere without anyone dying, will you say the mortality rate is zero?