Monkeypox thread

[Hygro]

Renamed for Hansen's greatest hit mmmpox

 

[cardgame]

So, it's been some time. Thread's not gone very far. On a scale of 10, how much of a nothingburger was the mpox? Or is it still a sleeper agent that the world has simply elected to ignore?

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

I would give it a 2/10.

 

[Samson]

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on 14 August that it is declaring mpox a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ — just 15 months after the end of the WHO’s previous mpox emergency. The declaration asks the world's countries to work together and to provide resources to improve surveillance, treat those who are infected and stop the outbreak.

The previous outbreak was clade II, considered less dangerous. This new outbreak is clade I, considered more dangerous and is estimated to have emerged around mid-September 2023. There are indications this strain is transmitted through sex, and there is increasing evidence of mpox-HIV co-infection.

There have been hundreds of identified cases in Africa, and these are thought to be the tip of the iceberg. In recent days cases have been identified in Sweden and Pakistan.

Current antiviral options include tecovirimat, cidofovir and birincidofovir all of which have been recommended relying on experience from animal studies, clinical case reports or case series. Results of well-planned randomized control trials are not available.


Mpox: what sexual health physicians need to know?

 

[Birdjaguar]

No more sex with monkeys for me!

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

not good precedent. making this connection in the first place says more about the people making it than calling the disease monkeypox. not a fan of the precedent of bending over to china, either.

I saw a meme where a scientist said he was fighting racism by changing the name, and a Black guy asked "So you think we're monkeys?"

 

[amadeus]

My understanding is that the name originated from the discovery in monkeys, not that monkeys are the main source of the disease.