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originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: xuenchen
Don't they just stop it from itching so much?
A woman is now experiencing health problems after coming into close contact with lab monkeys that escaped after a crash on a Pennsylvania highway.
Michelle Fallon witnessed a truck crash Friday while it was towing a trailer load of 100 of the animals. She stopped to help.
āI thought, well, zoo monkeys,ā Fallon said. āI didnāt know these were animal test monkeys.ā
Treatment
Currently, there is no proven, safe treatment for monkeypox virus infection. For purposes of controlling a monkeypox outbreak in the United States, smallpox vaccine, antivirals, and vaccinia immune globulin (VIG) can be used.
originally posted by: StoutBroux
Treatment
Currently, there is no proven, safe treatment for monkeypox virus infection. For purposes of controlling a monkeypox outbreak in the United States, smallpox vaccine, antivirals, and vaccinia immune globulin (VIG) can be used.
What does that mean?????? Smallpox vaccines prevent monkeypox?
Aren't all children in the USA and many other countries vaccinated against smallpox? If so, I'm not seeing an issue here in the USA except for the illegal immigrants that may not have been vaccinated.
The clinical presentation of monkeypox resembles that of smallpox, a related orthopoxvirus infection which was declared eradicated worldwide in 1980. Monkeypox is less contagious than smallpox and causes less severe illness.
Vaccines used during the smallpox eradication programme also provided protection against monkeypox. Newer vaccines have been developed of which one has been approved for prevention of monkeypox
An antiviral agent developed for the treatment of smallpox has also been licensed for the treatment of monkeypox.
Vaccination against smallpox was demonstrated through several observational studies to be about 85% effective in preventing monkeypox. Thus, prior smallpox vaccination may result in milder illness. Evidence of prior vaccination against smallpox can usually be found as a scar on the upper arm. At the present time, the original (first-generation) smallpox vaccines are no longer available to the general public. Some laboratory personnel or health workers may have received a more recent smallpox vaccine to protect them in the event of exposure to orthopoxviruses in the workplace. A still newer vaccine based on a modified attenuated vaccinia virus (Ankara strain) was approved for the prevention of monkeypox in 2019. This is a two-dose vaccine for which availability remains limited. Smallpox and monkeypox vaccines are developed in formulations based on the vaccinia virus due to cross-protection afforded for the immune response to orthopoxviruses.
originally posted by: Macenroe82
a reply to: MrBuddy
I just read thereās a few cases in Quebec of the Pox.
I swear I will end it if I get the Monkey Pox.
I had the damn chicken pox when I turned 19. It felt like I had marbles under my skin.
I was covered in them.
Never, ever, again, will I go through that torture.
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: xuenchen
Are they working on an airborne transmittable strain yet?
Get Ready ā ļø
They have Bird Flu ready to go too. The "trials" earlier this year delivered a 60% death rate.
Appearing Friday on CNBCās Squawk Box, Pfizer board member and former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said the rise in monkeypox cases suggests the virus has spread āpretty wide,ā but he predicted that it will not spark an epidemic akin to the coronavirus.
REBECCA QUICK: What the heck is Monkeypox and do we actually need to worry about this?
DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: Now that thereās been community spread, it may be hard to snuff this out. I donāt think it will become a major epidemic because this is a virus thatās difficult to spread. You need sustained close contact or sustain contact with the open source, but thereās so many cases now that are disconnected. This is spreading in the community and there may be a lot more inflection than what weāre picking up. It has a long incubation period, upwards of 21 days. So there may be a lot of people incubating the virus and thereās probably a lot of people who went undiagnosed or misdiagnosed because doctors arenāt looking for it. And given the fact we found so many disconnected cases, it does suggest the spread is pretty wide.
originally posted by: vNex92
a reply to: MrBuddy
Isn't it amusing this virus comes as soon "Europe" was testing for such a possible scenario.