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Gestalt #96 – Monkey Pox |
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Tabitha111 ![]() Adviser Group ![]() ![]() Joined: January 11 2020 Location: Virginia Status: Offline Points: 11640 |
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monotreme1000 May 20 Monkeypox virus (MPV), is a human orthopoxvirus. This family of viruses includes variola virus (smallpox) and several other viruses associated with animals such as camelpox. As everyone knows, smallpox is one of the most feared viruses on Earth. It was eradicated with an effective vaccine program (back when most people believed vaccines work). Monkeypox, in the past, was primarily transmitted from animals to people. Despite its name, the natural host of monkeypox is thought to be rodents. It got its name because it was first identified after a colony of monkeys were infected. The current outbreak of monkeypox is concerning because the virus is behaving differently than it has in the past. Monkeypox is endemic to Africa and the current outbreak is thought to have originated there, although there is no proof that this is true. However, it is true that travelers to Africa have returned to Europe with the infection. We are told that monkeypox is much milder than smallpox. This is true. However, smallpox started as a milder disease that got more severe as it infected more people and was selected to evade the immune system. Sound familiar? The soothers won’t tell you this. A draft sequence of the monkeypox virus genome from a patient in Portugal has recently been released. The authors should be congratulated for doing this so quickly. Analysis of this sequence and publication of sequence from other patients would be useful and should be released as soon as possible. This outbreak may sputter and extinguish itself. But then again, it may not. I don’t like the way this one “feels”. |
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That's a good article. Thanks. What strikes me as very odd is that that we go for decades with no monkeypox and then, as if by magic, it appears spontaneously in countries across the globe. There are obviously way more cases that have yet to show up. It's just too coincidental. |
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