Posted on 07/20/2021 8:17:44 PM PDT by dynachrome
More than 200 people in 27 states are being monitored for possible exposure to monkeypox after they had contact with an individual who contracted the disease in Nigeria before traveling to the United States this month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To date, no additional cases have been detected.
State and local health authorities are working with the CDC to identify and assess the individuals, and follow up with them daily until late this month, said Andrea McCollum, who leads the poxvirus epidemiology unit at the agency’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases.
“It is a lot of people,” McCollum acknowledged.
The efforts stem from the discovery that a U.S. resident infected with monkeypox traveled from Lagos, Nigeria, on an overnight flight to Atlanta that arrived on July 9; the person then traveled the same day to Dallas. On July 15, the individual sought care at a Dallas hospital emergency room, where the diagnosis of monkeypox was made.
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Alligators that can open doors and climb trees.
Now Monkeypox.
And trust me-you don't even want to know what the symptoms are like.
Great. FR docs will be all a flutter.
Looks like monkey pox is not very virulent.
Troublesome, but probably not real dangerous. Hope so, anyway.
From what i have read, it looks like it kills up to 10% of those infected in Africa. But then, that’s Africa for you, so who knows what it would do here.
Just more “cultural enrichment.” Diversity is Our Strength (TM)
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Don’t you know Monkeypox is spread by the throwing of infected species?
People will be mandated to wear Depends on the butt and a mask on the face! Especially on a plane and in airports (the way things are these days)
LOL!! There’s such a thing? 🤣
More diversity for you, whether you like it or not.
Monkey pox. Isn’t that somehow racist?
well, this is just a barrel of monkeys!
says wiki 10 days incubation and you’re probably immune if you’re one of those old folks innoculated against smallpox, and, bonus points - prairie dogs can catch it. And any lockdown of prairie dogs is fine with me.
It’s the distance that moisture travels when speaking in a normal tone.
Or were you being rhetorical?
Because Americans started to refuse the Covid vaccine, they have to give us something else and demand we have THAT vaccine.
Thanks biden for opening the border to one and all. Great when they bring in all their diseases
Anything to keep the democrats in power in 2022
How much toilet paper will we need?
Here we go again. 🙄
[[Who determined what is ‘too short’ an exposure?]]
Those who said ‘15 days to flatten the curve”
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