Posted on 11/17/2021 4:54:29 PM PST by markomalley
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday confirmed that a rare case of monkeypox has been found in a human in Maryland.
According to the CDC press release, a person contracted the virus while traveling to Nigeria, and brought it back to the U.S.
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I’m in Sunny Florida nowadays. I’m sure Viking2002 can ping the list, however.
No, I think it's cat scratch fever. A disease so noteworthy that it has its own song.
Cats really do run the show, apparently.
There’s also a bird pox.
Uh, they are monkeying with us.
Not my minkey
Monkeypox is a real thing. It’s very similar to smallpox, and they present on the torso and hands. It can be just as dangerous as smallpox.
The name sounds funny, but the disease itself sure fvcking isn’t.
Outbreak movie....
Fauci: I was passed over for the lead because I was too short. That too tall Dustin Hoffman freak got the Hollywood break I deserved. I’ll spread every fatal virus my Chinese friends can come up with until I get revenge. I am the star American deserves to see every day on TV. Me, me, me.
Considering how deadly small pox is, that would give them a twofer.
Force a vaccine and reduce the population by 30%.
I love Dr Zelenko.
He calls it like it is.
A targeted pathogen! Only Democrats are susceptible.
How prevalent is it in US? Or, is it something coming in with illegals?
Guess we’re lucky the person walked back rather than infecting everyone half the people on the plane...
Toxoplasmosis is another one from cats. Among other common zoonotic diseases, both probably infect a lot of people in the US (with many never even knowing that they are infected).
LOL!
Monkeypox is easily prevented using the same vaccines used to protect against Smallpox. The problem is that only the military has access to Smallpox vaccines in the US. Elsewhere in the world Smallpox vaccine is also very difficult to obtain for fear that terrorists would use it for themselves to protect them in case they released Smallpox in a terrorist attack.
It's not in the US. It exists in old world monkey and ape populations in Africa. It's easily prevented with the same vaccines used to eradicate Smallpox in the 1970's. The problem is the WHO and CDC don't want large numbers of people vaccinated against Smallpox to prevent its use as a bioterrorism agent.
..... It sure would be a real shame if our nations Monkeys would suffer from the Pox ....
He “brings the spice” as they say. I wonder if he would even know what that means? :-)
Differentiating it from smallpox requires testing that that only the CDC has available in the US and getting those drugs, if needed, would also require the CDC. Relatively few cases have reached US. A family in Wisconsin several years ago got it from pet prairie dogs, who'd picked it up from imported Gambian giant rats at an exotic animal wholesaler in Chicago IIRC. They weren't scary sick and by the time the diagnosis was proved were getting better so decided not to risk drug side effects. A case flew into Houston, IIRC, in the past year. And I was pleasantly surprised then that at least some part of the CDC still worked the way I'd have expected it to work 30 years ago. The rational response to monkeypox is to act like might be smallpox,
There are many named milder true cousins of smallpox , adapted to other species, which uncommonly infect people, even including cat pox. The most common of them are orf and milker's nodules, which produce individually similar lesions, but usually only one or a few of them unlike the often widespread monkey pox. They're fairly common in those raising sheep, goats or cattle and mostly need no treatment. The -pox suffix refers to the scars ('pocks') some rashes leave behind and not all bearing such suffix are related. "Chicken Pox" and "Great Pox (an old propagandized name for syphilis) are not true 'pox' viruses.
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