MPox - should all flights be suspended ?
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Given its severity, should all flights out of Africa be paused until they clear up the outbreak ?
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/whos-emer...
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/whos-emer...
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What a wild thread.
You may recall MPox already spread to the UK some time ago.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/monkeyp...
You may recall MPox already spread to the UK some time ago.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/monkeyp...
sparta6 said:
Given its severity, should all flights out of Africa be paused until they clear up the outbreak ?
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/whos-emer...
It's already here, and has been for a few years.https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/whos-emer...
HMGovt said:
Detection of cases of mpox infection, acquired within the UK, were confirmed in England from 6 May 2022. The outbreak has mainly been in gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men without documented history of travel to endemic countries.
Suspected mpox samples that are positive using a mpox polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test are classified as confirmed cases. Samples which are positive using an orthopox PCR test are classified as highly probable cases. Orthopox is the group of viruses which includes mpox. The counts below combine both of these categories.
Up to 31 December 2022, there were 3,732 confirmed and highly probable mpox cases reported in the UK. Of these, 3,553 were in England, 34 were in Northern Ireland, 97 were in Scotland and 48 were in Wales.
In 2023 and 2024 (up to 30 June 2024), there have been a total of 239 cases of mpox reported in the UK. Of these, 225 were in England (98 cases were presumed to have acquired mpox in the UK, 74 were acquired outside the UK and 53 are awaiting classification), 9 were in Scotland (5 were imported cases acquired outside the UK, 3 were presumed to have acquired mpox in the UK and one is awaiting classification), one was in Wales (an imported case acquired outside the UK), and 4 were in Northern Ireland (one was presumed to have acquired mpox in the UK, one was an imported case acquired outside the UK and 2 are awaiting classification).
Suspected mpox samples that are positive using a mpox polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test are classified as confirmed cases. Samples which are positive using an orthopox PCR test are classified as highly probable cases. Orthopox is the group of viruses which includes mpox. The counts below combine both of these categories.
Up to 31 December 2022, there were 3,732 confirmed and highly probable mpox cases reported in the UK. Of these, 3,553 were in England, 34 were in Northern Ireland, 97 were in Scotland and 48 were in Wales.
In 2023 and 2024 (up to 30 June 2024), there have been a total of 239 cases of mpox reported in the UK. Of these, 225 were in England (98 cases were presumed to have acquired mpox in the UK, 74 were acquired outside the UK and 53 are awaiting classification), 9 were in Scotland (5 were imported cases acquired outside the UK, 3 were presumed to have acquired mpox in the UK and one is awaiting classification), one was in Wales (an imported case acquired outside the UK), and 4 were in Northern Ireland (one was presumed to have acquired mpox in the UK, one was an imported case acquired outside the UK and 2 are awaiting classification).
DickyC said:
Will there be clapping?
There will be clap.(MPox is mostly sexually transmitted)
According to the article:
‘Mpox is transmitted through close contact, such as sex, skin-to-skin contact and talking or breathing close to another person’
And……
‘Although anyone can catch monkeypox, the outbreak was largely concentrated among men who had sex with men.’
Do the gay community kiss, have a different type of skin contact, breath differently or have much dirtier, dirty talk than heterosexual lovers?
Seems a bit odd to me!
The article also says a vaccine cures the symptoms which is normally given to those affected.
I also don’t understand that if it’s controllable, what’s the problem?
Edited to add according to another article I’ve just read:
‘One of the biggest risk factors for severe mpox infection and death is preexisting HIV infection’
So, it appears having HIV at the same time as having mpox can cause problems.
Also In the US and Europe, where there were just over 30,000 and 25,000 mpox cases respectively between May 2022 and May 2023, officials also disseminated over a million vaccine doses.
Based on a 4% mortality rate (as quoted in the first article), I can’t see anywhere a mention of around 1000 deaths or so as a result of that outbreak.
Seems like a nasty little virus but controllable if necessary.
‘Mpox is transmitted through close contact, such as sex, skin-to-skin contact and talking or breathing close to another person’
And……
‘Although anyone can catch monkeypox, the outbreak was largely concentrated among men who had sex with men.’
Do the gay community kiss, have a different type of skin contact, breath differently or have much dirtier, dirty talk than heterosexual lovers?
Seems a bit odd to me!
The article also says a vaccine cures the symptoms which is normally given to those affected.
I also don’t understand that if it’s controllable, what’s the problem?
Edited to add according to another article I’ve just read:
‘One of the biggest risk factors for severe mpox infection and death is preexisting HIV infection’
So, it appears having HIV at the same time as having mpox can cause problems.
Also In the US and Europe, where there were just over 30,000 and 25,000 mpox cases respectively between May 2022 and May 2023, officials also disseminated over a million vaccine doses.
Based on a 4% mortality rate (as quoted in the first article), I can’t see anywhere a mention of around 1000 deaths or so as a result of that outbreak.
Seems like a nasty little virus but controllable if necessary.
Edited by HoHoHo on Thursday 15th August 06:52
HoHoHo said:
According to the article:
‘Mpox is transmitted through close contact, such as sex, skin-to-skin contact and talking or breathing close to another person’
And……
‘Although anyone can catch monkeypox, the outbreak was largely concentrated among men who had sex with men.’
Do the gay community kiss, have a different type of skin contact, breath differently or have much dirtier, dirty talk than heterosexual lovers?
Seems a bit odd to me!
The article also says a vaccine cures the symptoms which is normally given to those affected.
I also don’t understand that if it’s controllable, what’s the problem?
Edited to add according to another article I’ve just read:
‘One of the biggest risk factors for severe mpox infection and death is preexisting HIV infection’
So, it appears having HIV at the same time as having mpox can cause problems.
Also In the US and Europe, where there were just over 30,000 and 25,000 mpox cases respectively between May 2022 and May 2023, officials also disseminated over a million vaccine doses.
Based on a 4% mortality rate (as quoted in the first article), I can’t see anywhere a mention of around 1000 deaths or so as a result of that outbreak.
Seems like a nasty little virus but controllable if necessary.
Phew. So slap an old hanky over your month and disinfect the trollies at Tesco as we should be alright?‘Mpox is transmitted through close contact, such as sex, skin-to-skin contact and talking or breathing close to another person’
And……
‘Although anyone can catch monkeypox, the outbreak was largely concentrated among men who had sex with men.’
Do the gay community kiss, have a different type of skin contact, breath differently or have much dirtier, dirty talk than heterosexual lovers?
Seems a bit odd to me!
The article also says a vaccine cures the symptoms which is normally given to those affected.
I also don’t understand that if it’s controllable, what’s the problem?
Edited to add according to another article I’ve just read:
‘One of the biggest risk factors for severe mpox infection and death is preexisting HIV infection’
So, it appears having HIV at the same time as having mpox can cause problems.
Also In the US and Europe, where there were just over 30,000 and 25,000 mpox cases respectively between May 2022 and May 2023, officials also disseminated over a million vaccine doses.
Based on a 4% mortality rate (as quoted in the first article), I can’t see anywhere a mention of around 1000 deaths or so as a result of that outbreak.
Seems like a nasty little virus but controllable if necessary.
Edited by HoHoHo on Thursday 15th August 06:52
I know someone who's gone on a safari holiday to Kenya with family. How many Brits go on holidays like this, where they might be exposed to wildlife that carries the virus, and inadvertently bring it home?
Global spread is inevitable unless the virus doesn't really spread that easily.
Global spread is inevitable unless the virus doesn't really spread that easily.
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