Monkeypox General 🐒🦠 - Authorities are calling it Monkeypox. The UK has begun a rapid deployment of Smallpox vaccines to first responders.

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A nightmare scenario ladies and gentlemen. A Pox Virus that looks oddly familiar. But it cannot possibly what we think it is. After all, Smallpox is extinct. But a Pox disease has popped up in the US, UK, and other European countries simultaneously with confirmed human to human transmission.


Its just monkeypox though authorities scream! No need to panic. Please don't pay any attention as we begin rapidly deploying smallpox vaccines to first responders.


Is it Monkeypox though? Why would a Pox virus suddenly appear simultaneously in both Western Europe and North America? That's a bit odd no? It could not POSSIBLY Smallpox. That only exists...in...labs...


Oh. Oh no.
 
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Sarracenia purpurea (purple pitcher plant) works against smallpox:
National Library of Medicine
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Learn how to grow and care for purple pitcher plant here.

You may have been vaccinated against smallpox already if you're in the right age group, it should be noted though that Smallpox immunity unfortunately does decline — after five to 10 years — but it is believed vaccinated individuals still have some protection against fatal outcomes should an outbreak, in the very rare event, reappear.
 
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DaddyDickDown said:
This is about as organic as DSP's membership count. Small pox still exists. Soldiers need to get a vaccine if they deploy
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Yeah, never heard of Smallpox being completely eliminated myself. It's very rare like mad cow disease, parvo, polio, tuberculosis and HIV in first world countries is now. I wouldn't say HIV is as rare as smallpox or polio, but it's still a good example.
 
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In 2003 there was a news story about monkeypox being linked to pet prairie dogs. It didn't go anywhere because who the hell keeps prairie dogs and monkeypox just sounded hilarious. Because it does. And surprise surprise! How did the outbreak happen? Imported rodents from Africa that were housed near prairie dogs being sold as pets. Because apparently people just can't get a gerbil or something normal like that.

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/outbreak/us-outbreaks.html

2003 Outbreak from Imported Mammals​


In 2003, forty-seven confirmed and probable casesexternal icon of monkeypox were reported from six states—Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. All people infected with monkeypox in this outbreak became ill after having contact with pet prairie dogs. The pets were infected after being housed near imported small mammals from Ghana. This was the first time that human monkeypox was reported outside of Africa.


What caused the 2003 U.S. outbreak?​


Investigators determined that a shipment of animals from Ghana, imported to Texas in April 2003, introduced monkeypox virus into the United States. The shipment contained approximately 800 small mammals representing nine different species, including six types of rodents. These rodents included rope squirrels, tree squirrels, African giant pouched rats, brush-tailed porcupines, dormice, and striped mice. CDC laboratory testing showed that two African giant pouched rats, nine dormice, and three rope squirrels were infected with monkeypox virus. After importation into the United States, some of the infected animals were housed near prairie dogs at the facilities of an Illinois animal vendor. These prairie dogs were sold as pets before they developed signs of infection.


All people infected with monkeypox became ill after having contact with infected pet prairie dogs. A study conducted after the outbreak suggested that certain activities associated with animals were more likely to lead to monkeypox infection. These activities included touching a sick animal or receiving a bite or scratch that broke the skin. Another important factor was cleaning the cage or touching the bedding of a sick animal. No instances of monkeypox infection were attributed exclusively to person-to-person contact.
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So we can safely blame Africa here. This is why you don't import weird animals. We have plenty of animals in the west that need homes. No one needs a brush tailed porcupine. Giant pouched rats are trained to find landmines. They are too light to set off the mines so they don't get hurt. I don't know if they were imported to Texas for military exercises or what. But I guess they weren't quarantined properly along with the rest of the small critters.

Likely the cause in the current outbreak is something similar. Bushmeat or exotic pet trade. It looks like a lot of gay men are getting infected though. So migrants likely are passing it around too. This is what happens when you just let them off the boat. Finally free to be gay without being executed. It's like being a kid in a candy store.
 
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