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WHO Says Monkeypox is a Global Health ‘Emergency,'
2022-07-24
[Epoch Times] Monkeypox has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO), joining COVID-19, which the international agency continues to label as such nearly two and a half years after it was first declared.

"I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a July 23 statement.

Ghebreyesus said that his decision was prompted by the global growth in monkeypox cases, which have now been reported in over 75 countries and territories, with over 16,000 infections and five deaths.
Five deaths. Right up there with covid and smallpox. How can we 'flatten the curve'?
From 10News:
WHO’s top monkeypox expert, Dr. Rosamund Lewis, said this week that 99% of all the monkeypox cases beyond Africa were in men and that of those, 98% involved men who have sex with men. Experts suspect the monkeypox outbreaks in Europe and North America were spread via sex at two raves in Belgium and Spain.

“Although I am declaring a public health emergency of international concern for the moment, this is an outbreak that is concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners," Tedros said. "That means that this is an outbreak that can be stopped with the right strategies in the right groups.
Posted by:Bobby

#36  Behavior, yes. DNA, no
Posted by: Frank G   2022-07-24 19:23  

#35  Based on the earlier Intel community regarding DNA targeting, I think the pox is a pretty good vector.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-24 19:14  

#34  Word censor may block GAY.
Ergo Ghey
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-24 19:12  

#33  why y'all keep spelling it ghey?
Posted by: Chris   2022-07-24 17:38  

#32  yeah, right, it'll be in the hetero pop....soon, right.

It was Tiny Tony who spread (no pun intended) that rumor too.

I'm sure Red Cross is having a board meeting right now to declare they will not test blood donors for monkeypox.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-24 16:05  

#31  #29 - I know. Monogamous gheys should be doing the shaming. The disease exposes all the myths: yeah, right, it'll be in the hetero pop....soon, right.

BS, same as the AIDS/HIV silence early in that "pandemic"
Posted by: Frank G   2022-07-24 16:01  

#30  About the children:

US records first two CHILD monkeypox cases: California toddler and an infant in D.C. were likely infected by 'household contacts' and both had contact with gay or bisexual men, CDC chief says
  • One is a toddler in California while the other infant is not a US resident and was 'transiting through' Washington D.C., officials said

  • They are receiving the antiviral TPOXX, which can help stop an infection in its tracks

  • Both children are 'doing well' and likely were infected by 'household contacts'

  • Dr Rochelle Walensky said they had contact with gay or bisexual men

  • It was not clear when they caught the virus, or what symptoms they had

  • This is the first time the virus has been detected among children in the US

  • Children under the age of eight are at high risk of severe monkeypox
A boy under 10 years old has also tested positive for the virus in the Netherlands after a family holiday to Turkey. Within a week the virus in his body had dropped to non-detectable levels, and he made a full recovery. None of his close contacts tested positive for monkeypox.

He had traveled to Turkey three weeks before symptoms began to appear.

His parents said the boy had chickenpox when he was five years old.

It is not clear how he became infected, but testing has ruled out it being down to sexual abuse. The family-of-five said they had no close contact with other guests while on holiday and put their own towels on chairs and loungers.

His parents, one of his siblings and a friend — who were all considered high-risk — were vaccinated with the Jynneous jab, which is being used in America.

In a press release, the CDC said: 'Monkeypox spreads through close skin-to-skin contact, which — in the case of children — could include hugging, cuddling, feeding, as well as through shared items such as towels, bedding, cups and utensils.'
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-07-24 15:55  

#29  Re #26: Frank,at one time that was largely how AIDS spread. We wouldn't be able "name and shame" them. That would be homophobic. In fact, I'm somewhat surprised that health officials have been allowed to say that 95% of the cases are among ghey men.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2022-07-24 15:40  

#28  Three words. Sodomite Suppression Act.

There's an emergency on for fcuk's sake, WHO says so! Who says so? The WHO! That's who.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-07-24 15:12  

#27  You can't shame the shameless...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-24 15:09  

#26  I'm not advocating locking up the gheys. It seems monogamous gheys aren't apparently getting/spreading (pun intended) the pox. It's the promiscuous narcissist self-destructive bathhouse types. Name and shame til that behavior ends. Now. Put that in the first para of every story before telling us it's OUR responsibility to "slow the spread"
Posted by: Frank G   2022-07-24 15:07  

#25  ...for your reference.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-07-24 15:06  

#24  I eat a fair amount of habanero flavored stuff. And other much hotter, like Carolina Reaper. In the novel Under the Volcano, the doomed protagonist drinks a lot of what is referred to as habanero. It can't be the same thing. So far, my research is fruitless. No pun intended as peppers are a kind of fruit. But not the Gheyrhesus kind...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-24 14:43  

#23  Habanero! Find all the gheys and habanero the shit outta them!

Sorry... that came out wrong. Eeep
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-07-24 14:38  

#22  It would cut into movie, tv, music and media output.

I think we could manage...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-24 14:21  

#21  ^ Lock down all the gheys. Watch the fun.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-24 14:19  

#20  If we ONLY knew some way to slow the spread!
Posted by: Frank G   2022-07-24 14:16  

#19  
Have not looked into the data deeply yet.
But isn't Monkey Pox's is still primarily widespread in the only in GAY / BI community after being brought in to the USA by LGBTX? participants from the Spain LGBTX? equivalent, of a International Burning Man type gathering some months ago?

The question now is if it's like AIDS. How long before their problem eventually becomes the other 98% of the populations' problem.

Will the next headline be: WH staffer gives JB the Pox.
Followed up by: JB gives Monkey Pox to kindergarten group he visited?

Either way, it is another GAY & Monkey combo health issue, just like aids was said to have started.


Posted by: NN2N1   2022-07-24 14:11  

#18  ...and just how did those two children in CA contract it?

Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-24 14:03  

#17  I think that's Gheyrhesus...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-24 13:36  

#16  Yeah, sure thing Gaybreyesus.

But while I have you at attention, 75 countries?....the other 30 or so, homosexuality illegal? Just asking questions here, head man.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-07-24 13:35  

#15  Most of the baboon fookers prefer to use their lance...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-24 12:29  

#14  Dries-Visser Oplossings (solutions)
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-07-24 12:14  

#13  ^^^^
Fire for effect...
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-07-24 12:04  

#12  ...and just how did those two children in CA contract it? Don't ask, Don't tell. Right.

"You are over the target. Repeat. You are over the target..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-24 11:15  

#11  [giggle]
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-07-24 11:07  

#10  Leave those poor sick monkeys alone, perverts
Posted by: Knuckles Angomort6922   2022-07-24 11:03  

#9  AIDS Panic the Sequel

...and just how did those two children in CA contract it? Don't ask, Don't tell. Right.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-07-24 10:46  

#8  there is already a vaccine
Posted by: Chris   2022-07-24 10:41  

#7  Somebody working on a vaccine?
Posted by: Bobby   2022-07-24 10:16  

#6  WHO says monkeypox a global health emergency.
No, he’s on first.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2022-07-24 10:14  

#5  Monkeypox virus could become entrenched as new STD in the US
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-24 10:12  

#4  I declare the existence of WHO to be a global health emergency
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-07-24 10:10  

#3  Biden administration declaring monkeypox a public health emergency after WHO declared disease a global emergency: US cases soar to more than 2,800
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-24 08:57  

#2  Perhaps the headline on the story should end with a question mark.
Posted by: James   2022-07-24 08:54  

#1  There are worse things...

Deadly Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever which kills 30% of people it infects by making them bleed from the eyes spreads to Spain as man is hospitalised with virus
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-24 07:53  

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