[FairOpinion]

"If the virus were to get into the wild, Mr. McFadden might have to consider vaccinating people with smallpox vaccine, which protects against both that disease and monkeypox."

Obviously there is a serious concern, though, of course they don't want people to panic, nor is there a need.. yet.

[RoughDobermann]

Time for "Pink Mist" to be revisited...

[theFIRMbss]

"Family: Poxvirus

"Habitat: rainforest of Central and Western Africa

"Behavior: zoonosis transmitted by monkeys; no human-to-human transfer so is unsustainable in the human population

"Action: must be played with a monkey vector; causes enemy to come down with a sydrome clinically similar to smallpox (Damage: 25); disease will not recur in enemy population unless this card is played again

"Counterattacks: if opponent has a squirrel reservior card, monkeypox will not harm him; smallpox vaccine also offers protection

"A Pox on You! [Caroline Perry, Stephanie Robson, Winter, 2000]"

[Lijahsbubbe]

West Nile, mad cow, SARS, monkeypox, have any of these been occuring in Arab countries?

[backhoe]

Cross-link:

-Strange new disease outbreaks--

[stlnative]

Why is it that people have to start a new monkeypox thread every few hours, when the news is not really that different from the first monkeypox post of the day? Come on folks stop starting new threads and continue to add the new news to the first one started for the day. Keep the daily information in one post so that people can really find all the "news" on the monkeypox breakout in one thread since the info is only changing slightly daily.

[Cindy]

FYI:

FR Discussion: "POX-LIKE OUTBREAK REPORTED" (On-going discussion began June 7, 2003)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/925154/posts

[x]

It's sounds like a horrible disease. Unfortunately the name brings to mind a Brendan Fraser comedy of a few years ago, that was certainly horrible enough, but in another sense of the word. I'd suggest changing the name so that people can take it more seriously.

[_Jim]

SEEMS like just YESTERDAY that SARS was all the rage!

[Redcloak]

We may have found this summer's "shark bite" story. (The SARS thing is so 20 minutes ago...)

[Xenalyte]

That's it. I'm naming my band Monkeypox.

(Chick bass players rule!)

[ido_now]

All these new diseases, one after another, "outbreaks" and epidemics that involve from 1 case to a couple thousand?

With a world popluation of over 6 billion what would happen if there was really a new disease?

I think the new one should be renamed "Monkeysh_t."