CN China’s first human infection case with Monkey B Virus dies

According to Global Times, a Beijing-based vet who was confirmed as China’s first human infection case with Monkey B Virus (BV) has died from the virus, but his close contacts are safe for the time being.

Meanwhile, a person infected with the monkeypox virus has been hospitalized in Texas, United States.

A vet was infected with Monkey B Virus in Beijing, China​

The 53-year-old male vet, who worked for a non-human primate research organisation, developed nausea and vomiting a month after dissecting two dead monkeys in early March.

The vet sought treatment at several hospitals before passing away on May 27, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s China CDC Weekly English Platform.

It was stated that there had previously been no fatal or even clinically evident BV infections in China, making the vet’s case the first human infection case with BV identified in China.

Researchers collected the veterinarian’s cerebrospinal fluid in April and found him to be positive for BV, despite the fact that samples from his close contacts tested negative for the virus.

Discovery of virus​

The virus, discovered in 1932, is an alphaherpesvirus that is enzootic in macaques of the genus Macaca. It is transmitted through direct contact and the exchange of bodily secretions, and has a fatality rate of 70-80%.

The journal speculated that BV in monkeys could pose a risk to occupational workers.

According to the report, BV must be eliminated during the development of specific pathogen-free rhesus colonies, and surveillance in laboratory macaques and occupational workers in China must be strengthened.

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[Dysnomia]

I don't think monkeypox and monkey B are the same thing. But hey, if they want to shut the world down because of not one but two minkey themed viruses, these days I wouldn't even be shocked. People are sick of Covid. But monkeypox is so alien to anyone outside of Africa.

The first time I heard of it was with a ban on the sale or keeping of prairie dogs. Although I don't know how many cases of monkeypox, if any, were related to this. Still, why keep an animal that can't be happy unless it can burrow?

 

[kcbbq]

"It is transmitted through direct contact and the exchange of bodily secretions, and has a fatality rate of 70-80%."

"Dissecting" - yeah, right.

If the Chinese are so smart why didn't they learn from the example of Africans brining AIDS to humanity by fucking monkeys and had to do it themselves unleashing yet another China sourced plague on us?

 

[NyQuilninja]

I don't know if any kiwis remember The on going panic that is the USSR collapsed. Their stockpile of biological weapons would somehow fall into the hands of terrorists. My point is china is the new Russia and their 150% even more likely to have a Biological weapons snafu on a level bigger then Chernobyl. And if because of their tiny little yellow penises a they certainly aren't going to tell anybody anytime soon when it happens.

 

[RodgerDodger]

"It is transmitted through direct contact and the exchange of bodily secretions, and has a fatality rate of 70-80%."

"Dissecting" - yeah, right.

If the Chinese are so smart why didn't they learn from the example of Africans brining AIDS to humanity by fucking monkeys and had to do it themselves unleashing yet another China sourced plague on us?

Nature finds its own ways to solve the LGBTroon problems. If you start dressing the monkeys up as small boys it will wipe out the Pedos too.