Belgian monkeypox outbreak linked to fetish festival

Insider Paper ^ | 05/20/22

[BusterDog]

Belgium’s three confirmed cases of monkeypox have been linked to a large-scale fetish festival in the port city of Antwerp, organisers said Friday.

Several European countries have reported cases in recent days, and the World Health Organisation is investigating whether some outbreaks spread within the gay community.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Can we call it “faggypox” yet? :)

[BiteYourSelf]

Freaking at the freaker’s ball.😫

[hanamizu]

Can we call it “faggypox” yet? :)

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Of course not. Despite all evidence to the contrary, this is a disease that must be taken seriously by the entire population. The fact that apparently nearly everyone has thus far gotten it seems to enjoy using a bodily exit as an entry point is irrelevant. It is a threat to everyone!! Saying otherwise is homophobic!!

I’m old enough to remember when HIV/AIDS first became noticed in the news. Despite being widespread in the ‘gay’ community, efforts to shut down ‘bathhouses’ in San Francisco went nowhere. We were told that HIV/AIDS was going to spread into the heterosexual population and likely kill us all unless we spent more money to fight it than we do cancer/heart disease, which likely will kill most of us.

See how often monkey pox is mentioned in the MSN as being linked to homosexuals and their behavior. I guessing never.

[Revolutionary]

Gays having sex with monkeys again.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Gays having sex with monkeys again.”

I hate when that happens.

[dfwgator]

[elpadre]

“.. Covid was spread by a sick Chinese jumping on a plane to Seattle Wash to get treated here for free . He went right to the ER after his flight..”

Think of the thousands coming across our southern border from all over the world. Also think of the many exotic diseases and viruses coming with them.

Our government welcomes them and their sicknesses.

[riri]

Translation: it was seeded there.

[GSWarrior]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_sfnQDr1-o

Baby monkey, baby monkey..

[Salman]

Just as they got AIDS sort of under control.

[JPG]

[JohnBovenmyer]

Monkeypox is an orthodox virus, the same branch of the huge pox virus family as smallpox (variola) and its 'vaccinia' vaccine. Of the remaining extant, wild orthodox viruses monkeypox historically comes closest to mimicking smallpox in humans. Not surprising as the host for which its named is more closely related to humans, than those for which the other orthodox viruses were named. Although it can cause as severe a human infection as smallpox it usually is significantly milder. The only certain way to differentiate it from smallpox is via DNA analysis. Although the rash of 'chickenpox' (varicella), an unrelated, non-pox virus in spite of its common name, is the rash most apt to be confused with smallpox by non-experts, in theory monkeypox can't be distinguished from smallpox with certainty on clinical grounds alone. The ability to prove a diagnosis of chickenpox is widespread. I suspect the US ability to 'prove' a diagnosis of monkeypox vs. smallpox only exists at the CDC, tied to the deal under which only our CDC and one Russian lab were allowed to keep smallpox for research. Which, alas, may aid the spread of some conspiracy theories.

Although 'MSM' subculture has long been known medically for having more infectious disease problems than 'straights' I wasn't aware of any of the orthodox viruses being known for spread as a STD. The most commonly seen 'human' pox virus, molluscum contagiosum, can be a STD, in both straight and gay populations, and can become widespread on the skin in AIDS, but is mostly seen as a self resolving mild skin only disease in children. And it's not very closely related to the orthodox viruses. So these reports that monkeypox is spreading in the gay community surprises me more than if it were spreading in a more general population. Which could result from more folks fleeing conflict in the Congo or from more immigrated West African's bringing along some of their culture and its consequences. The first touted monkeypox outbreak in the US was in a farm family in Wisconsin, who'd gotten it from a pet prairie dog, which they'd gotten from an exotic animal dealer who'd imported monkeypox infected Gambian Giant Rats—a delicacy in some cultures—which rats had then infected the prairie dog.

[gitmo]

Belgian monkeypox outbreak linked to fetish festival

The article doesn't say which is more dangerous, the monkeypox or the fetish festival.

[miserare]

I often say, when speaking of Congress, “A pox on both their houses”.

Monkeypox may effectuate my curse.

[Trillian]

Guess the commies are trying to get rid of the useful idiots.