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19 Monkeypox Cases Detected in 3 Midwest States Over Weekend
The New York Times ^ | 06/08/03 | LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN and JODI WILGOREN

Posted on 06/08/2003 2:30:27 PM PDT by Pokey78

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1 posted on 06/08/2003 2:30:27 PM PDT by Pokey78
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Most patients became ill from 4 to 12 days after exposure to a sick animal, but the incubation period may have been as long as 20 days.
This is terrible. I spent last weekend at a motivational seminar in Montana where one of the exercises involved rolling around naked in a huge basket of cuddly-furry prairie dogs. I forgot precisely how the basket of prairie dogs was supposed to motivate me. I mean, I did want to get out of that basket really badly, so I suppose I was motivated in that sense. I enjoyed the fire-walking excerise more than the prairie dog exercise, at least until my ceremonial robe went up like a Roman candle.
2 posted on 06/08/2003 2:48:14 PM PDT by Asclepius (as above, so below)
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"I spent last weekend at a motivational seminar in Montana where one of the exercises involved rolling around naked in a huge basket of cuddly-furry prairie dogs"
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LOL!!! Surely you jest!
3 posted on 06/08/2003 2:53:25 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: Pokey78; Judith Anne; Mother Abigail; CathyRyan; per loin; Dog Gone; Petronski; InShanghai; ...
Monkeypox Latest Bioweapon Lookout .
4 posted on 06/08/2003 2:58:42 PM PDT by aristeides
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Monkeypox Latest Bioweapon Lookout .
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Very interesting, written about a year ago.

I hope it's not bioterrorism, these things are hard to prove, was that Gambian rat really the origin? And how come in all the previous years there never have been any infections.

The appearance of the West Nile Virus was also first in the Western Hemisphere.

Aren't these a little too many conincidences?
5 posted on 06/08/2003 3:09:55 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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Dr. Kurt Reed, an infectious disease pathologist who runs the microbiology lab and the clinical research center at Marshfield Clinic, a large research facility in central Wisconsin, said his lab was the first to isolate the virus, after a 4-year-old girl who had been bitten by her new pet prairie dog came in with an infected finger in mid-May.

No common sense. These are not bred for gentleness, right? Aren't we talking about a wild animal pet for a 4 year old?

6 posted on 06/08/2003 3:10:57 PM PDT by Steve Eisenberg
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To: FairOpinion
I agree. They are starting to add up.
7 posted on 06/08/2003 3:11:00 PM PDT by riri
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To: aristeides
"The good news is that monkeypox does not appear to be transmissible from person to person and the smallpox vaccine protects against it. "

Those of us who had smallpox vaccines years/decades ago should have some immunity.

8 posted on 06/08/2003 3:14:19 PM PDT by blam
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I spent last weekend at a motivational seminar in Montana where one of the exercises involved rolling around naked in a huge basket of cuddly-furry prairie dogs.

What FairOpinion said. Are we in a 60's time warp here, or what? And where's PETA when you actually need it?

9 posted on 06/08/2003 3:14:36 PM PDT by Steve Eisenberg
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Memorable Shot: Smallpox Vaccine Has Lasting Effect (40's-50's Vaccination Still Good)
10 posted on 06/08/2003 3:17:06 PM PDT by blam
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"The good news is that monkeypox does not appear to be transmissible from person "

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I read in a number of places that it IS transmissible from person to person.

We HOPE that smallpox vaccines of years ago may provide some protection, but the last vaccines were given over 30 years ago, and it's only supposed to last for 10 years. I know there have been some recent reports that there is some immunity even from that long ago, but then there were some reports which said it's not valid for that long. So who knows.

But I personally do wish they would make the smallpox vaccine AVAILABLE so those who want it, could take it on a voluntary basis.
11 posted on 06/08/2003 3:17:32 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: aristeides
-West Nile Virus- some basic information----
12 posted on 06/08/2003 3:18:40 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
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To: FairOpinion; blam
. The girl's parents, who also had contact with the prairie dog, both later developed the disease, though her 38-year-old father, who had received the small pox vaccination as a child, had a milder case.
13 posted on 06/08/2003 3:19:13 PM PDT by aristeides
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"though her 38-year-old father, who had received the small pox vaccination as a child, had a milder case. "
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So he still DID catch it, just was milder, I guess it's some consolation.
14 posted on 06/08/2003 3:20:59 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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FR Thread - Pox-Like Outbreak Reported
15 posted on 06/08/2003 3:21:45 PM PDT by stlnative (Were it not for the brave…there'd be no land of the free.)
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To: backhoe
This is the news I find troubling about WNV.

Another Polio? Alarming West Nile Risks Emerge

16 posted on 06/08/2003 3:22:45 PM PDT by blam
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the prairie dogs may have been housed with Gambian rats through an exotic pet dealer in suburban Chicago

This sounds as if it might be the source. Maybe having Gambian rats as pets was a bad idea? Let's hope only pet prairie dogs are infected, and not the prairie dog population in the wild, or we will likely have yet another exotic foreign disease to worry about.

17 posted on 06/08/2003 3:23:03 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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I'd say there's a bigger worry than prairie dogs. In Africa, monkeypox is carried by monkeys and squirrels.
18 posted on 06/08/2003 3:24:47 PM PDT by aristeides
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"Let's hope only pet prairie dogs are infected, and not the prairie dog population in the wild, or we will likely have yet another exotic foreign disease to worry about."

Yeah, I have already been thinking about the Grey Squirrels around here.

19 posted on 06/08/2003 3:25:43 PM PDT by blam
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The Prairie Dogs were exposed to Gambian Rat (probably smuggled in from Africa recently, where Monkeypox is from)

Read the other FR thread I posted a link to above.

This is not bioterrorism, it some fool that smuggled in a african Gambian Rat into the USA and the darn "pet" Prairie Dogs caught it.
20 posted on 06/08/2003 3:26:57 PM PDT by stlnative (Were it not for the brave…there'd be no land of the free.)
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