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Sweden reports first case of highly infectious mpox virus outside Africa amid outbreak
Fox News ^ | Aug 15, 2024

Posted on 08/16/2024 5:25:39 AM PDT by 11th_VA

Swedish health authorities announced the first case of the highly infectious mpox just a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global emergency for the outbreaks in Africa.

"In this case, a person was infected during a stay in the part of Africa where there is a major outbreak of (the more infectious mpox formerly known as monkeypox)," the Public Health Agency of Sweden announced on Thursday.

Magnus Gisslen, a state epidemiologist with the Swedish health agency, said the person had been treated and given "rules of conduct."

"The fact that a patient with mpox is treated in the country does not affect the risk to the general population," Swedish officials said

The announcement of an infected resident in the Scandinavian country comes just a day after WHO declared the mpox outbreak a global emergency.

The U.N. health agency said there have been more than 14,000 cases and 524 deaths this year, which already exceed last year's figures.

So far, more than 96% of all cases and deaths are in Congo....

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: monkeypox
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1 posted on 08/16/2024 5:25:39 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

But they’re not locking down for HIV...

Go figure.


2 posted on 08/16/2024 5:29:02 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: 11th_VA

More fearmongering. It’s always something with the left.


3 posted on 08/16/2024 5:30:22 AM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't here soon enough!)
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To: 11th_VA

Th worst part about getting monkey pox is the constant craving for bananas and the flinging of dung.


4 posted on 08/16/2024 5:31:10 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: 11th_VA

WHO could not see this coming before the election?


5 posted on 08/16/2024 5:31:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: mewzilla; nickcarraway; ransomnote; Jane Long
Oh, boy. From last year. Not good...

Monkeypox Patients Living with HIV: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Geographic and Temporal Variations

Anyone else continuing to wonder about yhe safety of blood supplies. Here's yet another reason.

6 posted on 08/16/2024 5:31:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: 11th_VA

Geez! Hope nothing untoward happens in chicongo next week. May fauxnocchio will be put back in service to man the helm to see the country through another health emergency.

🔬😵🚫😷💉🐂💨💩


7 posted on 08/16/2024 5:32:16 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: 11th_VA

Gotta be ridin’ dirty to catch the pox, no?


8 posted on 08/16/2024 5:33:37 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: mewzilla
Well lookee here, from this year...

A multivalent mRNA monkeypox virus vaccine (BNT166) protects mice and macaques from orthopoxvirus disease

Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering how many people contracting monkeypox have been previously vaxxed with an orthopoxvirus vectored CoupFlu vaccine...

Inquiring minds want to know...

9 posted on 08/16/2024 5:37:53 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: 11th_VA

diversity and open borders is really working out great for Sweden /s


10 posted on 08/16/2024 5:41:39 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: mewzilla
One more, this one from 2022, worth the read because of the implications...

Clinical Conundrums: Differentiating Monkeypox From Similarly Presenting Infections

11 posted on 08/16/2024 5:42:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: central_va

See for me, the worst part would be the gay orgies where it gets transmitted.


12 posted on 08/16/2024 5:46:18 AM PDT by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
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To: 11th_VA

The wonders of Diversity?


13 posted on 08/16/2024 5:49:46 AM PDT by MAGA2017
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To: 11th_VA

So the infected are formerly known as monkeys…


14 posted on 08/16/2024 5:55:14 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: 11th_VA

Laughing at them calling monkey pox “highly contagious”.

In the western world, the sole source of transmission is gay sex.

Pretty easy to avoid.


15 posted on 08/16/2024 5:59:37 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: 11th_VA

What "MONKEY POX" actually is: "MONkEY POX."

16 posted on 08/16/2024 6:31:15 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper (Please remain seated until your civilization comes to a complete stop.)
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17 posted on 08/16/2024 6:38:52 AM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: 11th_VA

It, like AIDS in 1980, started and spread across the US in the homo community whose “deathstyle” we are supposed to accept as “normal”.


18 posted on 08/16/2024 6:50:06 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: C210N

Awesome! (Saved for future use).


19 posted on 08/16/2024 7:12:46 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper (Please remain seated until your civilization comes to a complete stop.)
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To: Towed_Jumper

Stop boo-foo-ing!


20 posted on 08/16/2024 7:43:24 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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