Monkey Pox - no, not a joke

[Coss]

Emergency WHO meeting over monkeypox spread: 'We should take it seriously'

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The World Health Organisation is reportedly convening an emergency meeting to discuss the alarming spread of the monkeypox virus around the world.

The United Nations' health authority is bringing together leading experts on the rare disease as a number of new countries announced their first confirmed cases on Friday, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Eleven countries — including Australia, the US, Spain and Italy — have now detected monkeypox, in the first global outbreak of its kind...

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/emergency-who-meeting-over-monkeypox-spread-we-should-take-it-seriously/LCDE6E3U4AEKVCXHMS5LNEDC2M/

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Apparently small pox vaccine works against it

 

 

[Mekong]

Even though LGBTQ Community are denying Monkeypox is a “Gay Disease”, most of cases are amongst Gay Men, and in UK Smallpox vaccine is being offered to Gay Community to begin with.

MPX

[My Penis is hungry]

Gay mates in Melbourne alerted me to it, they don't seem to be saying its not

 

[Mekong]

Even though MPX is prevalent amongst the Gay Community, it isn’t a Gay Infection per se, since it is not sexually transmitted / bodily fluids as per standard STD’s but passed on via skin contact.

[My Penis is hungry]

I don't know about you but I tend to only rub against people unless sex is involved, or flaming on the internet

 

 

 

[Coss]

What?
Monkey pox season already?
But I've still got my Ukraine decorations up

[Mekong]

Just found out I have already had my Monkeypox Vaccination and am about 85% protected.

You see, my parents weren’t “anti vaxxers” and had me inoculated as a child, one of which, amongst many, was smallpox

They stopped it in 1971 in the UK, so anyone 50+ from UK is probably vaccinated.

[My Penis is hungry]

Yeah I was surprised to see that Smallpox vaccination is still around.

 

I'm vaccinated,

 

Interestingly my far younger wife is vaccinated they didn't stop in Thailand till quite a while after Oz

 

Reminds me of the wonderful pro-vax cartoon during COVID.

 

"Mummy whats that mark on your arm"?

 

That's my smallpox vaccination so I didn't get smallpox

 

"Why don't I have one mummy"

 

Because vaccinations work

[Mekong]

But given people with vaccination are over 50 more likely grandma not mummy 

[My Penis is hungry]

Wife is younger than 50

 

Last endemic case was about 45 years ago I think in Somalia,

 

So Vaccination continued I'd expect for a while after,

 

Wonderful what a vaccination can do.

 

Interestingly the "Heard Immunity" idea is no longer viable, too many variants in Covid

 

But if we had been able to do the mass vaccination early on we could have wiped it