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Belgium Begins Monkeypox Quarantines, Biden Warns “Everybody Should Be Concerned”
truthpress ^ | 5/22/2022 | truthpress

Posted on 05/22/2022 7:21:16 PM PDT by bitt

Belgium has become the first country to introduce a mandatory 21-day monkeypox quarantine for those who contact the virus, after three cases were recorded in the country.

The infections were all linked to a festival in the port city of Antwerp, according to the Daily Mail, as Belgium is now one of 14 countries to confirm outbreaks of the viral disease (in addition to suspected, but not confirmed cases in Austria and Greece).

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Belgium has become the first country to introduce a mandatory 21-day monkeypox quarantine for those who contact the virus, after three cases were recorded in the country.

The infections were all linked to a festival in the port city of Antwerp, according to the Daily Mail, as Belgium is now one of 14 countries to confirm outbreaks of the viral disease (in addition to suspected, but not confirmed cases in Austria and Greece).

On Sunday, US President Joe Biden said that the recent spread of monkeypox is “something that everybody should be concerned about.”

“It is a concern in that if it were to spread it would be consequential,” he said, speaking from Osan Air Base in South Korea where he was meeting with troops before the Japan leg of his Asia trip.

Biden is reportedly receiving regular updates, according to National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, who told the traveling press pool that the United States has vaccines “available to be deployed.”

UK health officials, meanwhile, have warned that the UK faces a ‘significant’ rise in infections, and the government’s response is ‘critical’ in containing the spread.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; belgium; monkeypox; quarantine
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To: the OlLine Rebel

‘Amazing how suddenly diseases are all the Bubonic Plague’

until you consider exactly it is that benefits from it, and then it makes perfect sense...

btw, there are a couple of real gems on this very website who immediately go into breathless ecstasy at the prospect of microbiological disaster; one last night was pushing immediate and severely enforced quarantine for this primate pox...


41 posted on 05/23/2022 4:00:48 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: bitt

I think it’s already here...RE: the new press secretary.


42 posted on 05/23/2022 7:19:01 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: bitt
"...the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary." --- H. L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
43 posted on 05/23/2022 9:39:50 AM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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