UK- Two cases of monkeypox virus found in Wales, June 2021

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This man describes what it was like to have it. Very brave of him to go public.

He says it was very painful and the sickest he's ever been.

Some of his friends have had difficulty obtaining the vaccine.

KHOU.com: Texas man says monkeypox infection took a toll on him.
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'Complete hell' | Texas man says monkeypox infection took a toll on him

He’s not sure exactly how he got it, but Luke was contacted by the Dallas Health Department, which told him he may have been exposed to monkeypox.
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Lengthy article.
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WHO again considers declaring monkeypox a global emergency

As the World Health Organization's emergency committee convenes Thursday to consider for the second time within weeks whether to declare monkeypox a global crisis, some scientists say the striking differences between the outbreaks in Africa and in developed countries will complicate any...
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July 21 2022 rbbm

''WHO again considers declaring monkeypox a global emergency'​


''There are now more than 15,000 monkeypox cases worldwide. While the United States, Britain, Canada and other countries have bought millions of vaccines, none have gone to Africa, where a more severe version of monkeypox has already killed more than 70 people. Rich countries haven't yet reported any monkeypox deaths.

“What’s happening in Africa is almost entirely separate from the outbreak in Europe and North America,” said Dr. Paul Hunter, a professor of medicine at Britain’s University of East Anglia who previously advised WHO on infectious diseases.

The U.N. health agency said this week that outside of Africa, 99% of all reported monkeypox cases are in men and of those, 98% are in men who have sex with other men. Still, the disease can infect anyone in close, physical contact with a monkeypox patient, regardless of their sexual orientation.

“In these very active gay sexual networks, you have men who really, really don’t want people to know what they’re doing and may not themselves always know who they are having sex with,” Hunter said.

Some of those men may be married to women or have families unaware of their sexual activity, which “makes contact tracing extremely difficult and even things like asking people to come forward for testing,” Hunter said, explaining why vaccination may be the most effective way to shut down the outbreak.

That’s probably not the case in Africa, where limited data suggests monkeypox is mainly jumping into people from infected animals. Although African experts acknowledge they could be missing cases among gay and bisexual men, given limited surveillance and stigmatization against LGBTQ people, authorities have relied on standard measures like isolation and education to control the disease.

Dr. Placide Mbala, a virologist who directs the global health department at Congo’s Institute of National Biomedical Research, said there are also noticeable differences between patients in Africa and the West.

“We see here (in Congo) very quickly, after three to four days, visible lesions in people exposed to monkeypox,” Mbala said, adding that someone with so many visible lesions is unlikely to go out in public, thus preventing further transmission.

But in countries including Britain and the U.S., doctors have observed some infected people with only one or two lesions, often in their genitals.

“You wouldn’t notice that if you’re just with that person in a taxi or a bar,” Mbala said. “So in the West, people without these visible lesions may be silently spreading the disease.”
 
I wondered when the first international case would be found in a child. Hopefully this remains very rare. A child in the Netherlands who had symptoms after a trip to Turkey.

arstechnica.com

WHO declares monkeypox an international emergency as child cases raise alarm [Updated]

The declaration comes amid new reports of cases in children.
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The doctors' best—but concerning—guess as to how the boy became infected is via respiratory transmission...

The child case in the Netherlands... was initially misdiagnosed twice as a fungal skin infection and then a bacterial skin infection before being accurately identified as monkeypox.
 
July 22 2022
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Monkeypox: US confirms first two cases in children

Children are at an elevated risk for severe monkeypox disease, but both children were "doing well".
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''The first two US paediatric cases of monkeypox have been reported by health officials as a national outbreak continues to take root.
One patient is a California toddler and the other is a non-US resident infant who was "transiting through" the Washington DC area.
The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said both children were "doing well".
Children under eight are at high risk of severe monkeypox, said the agency.
More than 2,500 cases of the virus have been recorded across the country.
Most cases have been detected among gay and bisexual men in frequent sexual contact.
But the CDC is now aware of at least eight cases in cisgender women, the agency told reporters on Friday.
Monkeypox is not considered purely a sexually transmitted infection (STI) - the disease is also passed on by close contact with an infected person.''
 
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WHO declares monkeypox a global public health emergency

The same designation was used in the past for Covid-19, Ebola, Zika, H1N1 flu and polio. More than 16,500 monkeypox cases have been recorded worldwide.
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The World Health Organization on Saturday declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern, a designation reserved for the most serious global disease outbreaks.

That puts monkeypox on the same list as six other outbreaks with the same WHO label since 2007: Covid-19, Zika, H1N1 flu, polio and Ebola, which has been designated an emergency twice.

The WHO decision came after an emergency committee convened on Thursday to assess the spread of monkeypox and determine the severity of its threat...
 
Transmitted now to ch
dotr said:
July 22 2022
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Monkeypox: US confirms first two cases in children

Children are at an elevated risk for severe monkeypox disease, but both children were "doing well".
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''The first two US paediatric cases of monkeypox have been reported by health officials as a national outbreak continues to take root.
One patient is a California toddler and the other is a non-US resident infant who was "transiting through" the Washington DC area.
The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said both children were "doing well".
Children under eight are at high risk of severe monkeypox, said the agency.
More than 2,500 cases of the virus have been recorded across the country.
Most cases have been detected among gay and bisexual men in frequent sexual contact.
But the CDC is now aware of at least eight cases in cisgender women, the agency told reporters on Friday.
Monkeypox is not considered purely a sexually transmitted infection (STI) - the disease is also passed on by close contact with an infected person.''
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Transmited to children now.:mad:

Let's get the statistics out there and be brutally honest about how this disease is getting transmitted internationally.

"Most cases have been detected among gay and bisexual men in frequent sexual contact." The first wave of cases was from people who were visiting festivals that had an international clientele and were spreading the virus to people who would be returning to various different countries, and still participating in behaviours that would risk more transmission.

Let's hear some responsible leadership talk about these risks, now they are moving on to children and appear to be spread by less intimate contact.
 
My daughter sent me a picture of herself wearing a PPE outfit with the caption "Monkeypox".
I asked her if she has a case there.
Her answer was "Multiple".
Baltimore...University of Maryland Medical Center

what on earth? Alarming.
 
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Tourists among those getting monkeypox shots in Montreal as global emergency declared

Tourists were among those lining up to get monkeypox vaccines in Montreal on Saturday, as the World Health Organization declared the virus a global health emergency.
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''July 23, 2022
MONTREAL -- Tourists were among those lining up to get monkeypox vaccines in Montreal on Saturday, as the World Health Organization declared the virus a global health emergency.
Brian Maci was one of several New Yorkers who was waiting to get the shot at an outdoor walk-in clinic in the city's Gay Village.
Maci, who was already in Montreal on vacation, said he was prompted to get the vaccine in Canada after trying unsuccessfully to book an appointment back home.
“It's like concert tickets,” he said of the process in New York.''

Later, at a drag show, he heard an announcement that vaccines were available in Montreal, including for tourists.

“They mentioned that this was here and it's the best thing ever because the community is reaching out, and I can get it without having to deal with the U.S,” he said.

Another vacationing couple from New York told a similar story about trying to book a vaccine appointment back home.

“I was kicked out of the system maybe five or six times and eventually there were no more appointments, and no telling when more appointments would be released,” said Brad, a 36-year-old who did not want to give his last name.
“We were able to come here and get a walk-in vaccine and it's amazing, an incredible service,” he said.
Montreal is offering vaccination against the disease to all men who have sex with men, as well as to people who have been exposed to monkeypox.''


“If somebody gave me a pamphlet maybe a week ago, I probably would have walked past this,” he said.

Maci, for his part, said he felt uplifted by the warm welcome he received in Montreal as well as the community effort to protect people.

“(Monkeypox) doesn't scare me because of this,” he said, gesturing at the pink and blue tents. “New York is stressful.”
 
ChatteringBirds said:
IMO it's time to change this thread's title from the current "Two cases...". (Half-LOL)
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Had wondered about a title change but must admit that i find it interesting to see how this thing was first mentioned a full year ago and i almost put this thread into the "Bizarre News" section, now look at the messy numbers!
 
BetteDavisEyes said:
www.clickondetroit.com

Michigan now has 27 cases of monkeypox after 2 more reported in Metro Detroit

According to Michigan health officials, there are currently 25 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the state as of Tuesday.
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There are 46 cases in NC as of today. :(

NC labs are doing wastewater testing but hadn't found any monkeypox virus in wastewater as of Monday.
From the News & Observer:
North Carolina labs have started testing wastewater for monkeypox, the latest infectious disease on the rise in the state. After two weeks, the virus had not been detected in water collected at 25 locations statewide as of Monday, said Kelly Haight Connor, a spokesperson for the state Department of Health and Human Services.
 
July 28 2022
globalnews.ca

State of emergency declared in San Francisco over monkeypox spread - National | Globalnews.ca

The declaration was welcomed by gay advocates who have grown increasingly frustrated by what they called San Francisco's lackluster response to the virus.
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''The mayor of San Francisco announced a state of emergency Thursday over the growing number of monkeypox cases, allowing officials to cut through red tape and fight a public health crisis reminiscent of the AIDS epidemic that began devastating the city in the 1980s.

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“We are in desperate need of vaccines to support the people of San Francisco,” Mayor London Breed said. The city has been pleading with federal health officials for more help, she said, but it has fallen on deaf ears.

The declaration, which takes effect Monday, was welcomed by gay advocates who have grown increasingly frustrated by what they called San Francisco’s lackluster response to a virus that so far has affected primarily men who have sex with men, although anyone can get infected.''

''Dr. Anthony Fauci says the world "could have done better" in curbing monkeypox globally, but the window remains open to get it under control.

"The challenge now with monkeypox is to try and implement [strategies and interventions] effectively, and in an equitable way — without inducing the spectre of stigma," said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in the U.S.

"We have these interventions and we've got to get them to the people who need it — things like vaccines," he told The Current's Matt Galloway.''

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What is monkeypox, and how can you stay safe while it spreads?

As a global outbreak of monkeypox continues to grow, public health officials are stressing the importance of education in fighting the virus.
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''The lesions typically concentrate on the arms and legs, but in the latest outbreak, they're showing up more frequently on the genital and perianal area, which has raised some concerns that monkeypox lesions may be confused with STDs.
The rash is "showing up in different parts of the body than we typically expect to see it," Dr. John Brooks, the CDC's chief medical officer of HIV prevention, said in late May.''
 
JDG said:
The latest emerging virus is Marburg, 90% fatality rate.

Only two confirmed cases so far but ‘watch this space’.

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Thanks for the information.
I created a separate thread for the Marburg virus:
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Ghana - Outbreak of Marburg Virus (MVD), July 2022

Three people have died in Ghana from the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family as Ebola for which no treatment yet exists... It is the first declared outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in the country, and the second in west Africa after Guinea confirmed a case last...
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anneg said:
The article says the case fatality rate is 50%...which is bad enough!
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I think it depends on the strain and how the cases are handled.

Fatality rate goes from 20%-88% but it guess the ‘header’ read 90% fatality.

Lets face it, we don’t need any of these viruses in our lives. Ugh
 
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