Monkeypox Discussion Thread

[BK The Great]

impetigo

Damn, not sure why that page said it's Monkeypox.

 

[Nabs]

Damn, not sure why that page said it's Monkeypox.

She originally framed it like it was MP, but then updated with the actual diagnosis.

 

[CrimsonTider]

i dont know how anybody can read that sentence and come away confused, but this article might help you understand that even the CDC agrees that it is doing its job very poorly

CDC director announces shake-up, citing COVID mistakes

The planned changes — CDC leaders call it a 'reset' — come amid ongoing criticism of the agency's response to COVID-19, monkeypox and other public health threats.

www.latimes.com

This doesn’t answer my question

 

[NZA]

This doesn’t answer my question

i said the CDC needs to do a better job explaining monkeypox to the public. how can you need more clarity from a simple sentence?

 

[CrimsonTider]

i said the CDC needs to do a better job explaining monkeypox to the public. how can you need more clarity from a simple sentence?

Is this inadequate ?

• At this time, data suggest that gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men make up the majority of cases in the current monkeypox outbreak. However, anyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, who has been in close, personal contact with someone who has monkeypox is at risk.

 

[NZA]

Is this inadequate ?

• At this time, data suggest that gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men make up the majority of cases in the current monkeypox outbreak. However, anyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, who has been in close, personal contact with someone who has monkeypox is at risk.

their website, as it is updated to late july, is not the full extent of their communications. they need to communicate through mass media and to doctors across the country. they admit they didnt do a good job, so i dont know what more you want from me, breh. you can google this for further information

 

[barese]

Monkeypox now reported in all 50 states

Every state has now reported at least one case of monkeypox, after Wyoming became the last state to confirm a case.

abcnews.go.com

 

[88m3]

Just read an Italian tourist died of monkey pox in Cuba

 

[barese]

Think the CDC F-ked up Covid-19? Monkeypox and Polio Aren't Going Any Better

The government agency tasked with ensuring our safety isn't up to the job — and they're going to need a full overhaul to tackle Covid-19, monkeypox, and polio all at once

www.rollingstone.com

An effective monkeypox strategy was obvious. Disseminate information on pox symptoms to doctors, clinics and community leaders. Test for infections. Isolate and vaccinate the infected (the vaccines also work as therapies, post-infection). Vaccinate people who came in contact with the infected in order to cut off the pathogen’s transmission pathways.

It’s Public Health 101. But the CDC scored, at best, a “C,” says Jeffrey Klausner, a UCLA epidemiologist.

First, the CDC dragged its heels informing doctors and clinicians about pox symptoms, leading to many instances where pox infections got misdiagnosed as herpes or another common sexually-transmitted disease. Misdiagnosis allowed the virus to spread, unchecked, for weeks.

After finally addressing the diagnosis problem this summer, the CDC struggled with the next challenge: testing. Pox surveillance in these critical early months has been “quite limited and insufficient,” Klausner says.

Perhaps most gallingly, the CDC failed to maintain its stash of hundreds of millions of smallpox vaccine doses residing in 12 secret locations overseen by the Strategic National Stockpile. When the CDC began pulling doses out of storage, it noticed that around 20 million of them had expired. That slowed the distribution of jabs to pox hotspots such as New York City.

Broadly speaking, the CDC is taking the right steps to contain monkeypox. But it takes each step a little too late, and stumbles. Slow and sloppy against an outbreak that’s doubling in scale every 10 days, the CDC’s performance on the pox “could and should be much, much, much better,” Klausner said.

And now there's also polio...

 

[newarkhiphop]

 

[CrimsonTider]

WHO: Monkeypox cases drop 21%, reversing month-long increase

The number of monkeypox cases reported globally dropped 21% in the last week, reversing a month-long trend of rising infections.

apnews.com

 

[CrushedGroove]

First reported death attributed to monkeypox in US

Texas reports first U.S. death in person with monkeypox

Texas on Tuesday reported the first death in a severely immunocompromised person who was diagnosed with monkeypox, according to state health department officials.

www.reuters.com

 

[CrimsonTider]

First reported death attributed to monkeypox in US

Texas reports first U.S. death in person with monkeypox

Texas on Tuesday reported the first death in a severely immunocompromised person who was diagnosed with monkeypox, according to state health department officials.

www.reuters.com

Until the investigation is complete, it is premature to assign a specific cause of death."

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

lol at this thread being stickied but the Russia/Ukraine thread isn't.
sohh stupid...

 

[DoubleClutch]

They really tried making this the “new pandemic”