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Just some ideas/links-it is impossible to follow all of the stories in detail; 

War,

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mexican-presidents-absence-summit-americas-embarrassment-white-house[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mexican-presidents-absence-summit-americas-embarrassment-white-house

There's been fierce debate over the list of invitees for weeks, but the exclusion of leaders from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela - all leftist-governed nations known for running afoul of US foreign policy - was the final straw for Mexico.

"There cannot be a summit if all countries are not invited," López Obrador told a press conference. He said Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard will go in his place. "Or there can be one, but that is to continue with all politics of interventionism," he added, also underscoring that Biden is "not respecting these countries’ sovereignty, their independence" in not inviting them.

Joining Mexico's criticism of the summit were Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras, and Antigua and Barbuda - who have affirmed their leaders will not be in attendance at the summit.

DJ, The US should not "change" their foreign policy-to should start to have one.....OPEC+ (including Saudi Arabia) finished with the US....KSA/Argentina thinking of joining BRICS....

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/06/some-other-peoples-thoughts-on-the-us-ukraine-and-europe.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/06/some-other-peoples-thoughts-on-the-us-ukraine-and-europe.html

Now, as the horse is out of the barn, we should not close its door, says Münchau, but offer something that woos the horse to voluntarily come back in:

Unless we cut a deal with Putin, with the removal of sanctions as a component, I see a danger of the world becoming subject to two trading blocs: the west and the rest. Supply chains will be reorganised to stay within them. Russia’s energy, wheat, metals, and rare earths will still be consumed, but not here. We keep the Big Macs.

I am not sure the west is ready to confront the consequences of its actions: persistent inflation, reduced industrial output, lower growth, and higher unemployment. To me, economic sanctions look like the last hurrah of a dysfunctional concept known as the west. The Ukraine war is a catalyst of massive de-globalisation.

Europe instead is discussing how to best burn its barn down.

DJ, Insanity is not a good basis for politics....."the west" is at the end of its power-trying to hang on to it in the only way they know; terror....That is only making matters worse....

In my opinion the "west" will be split up in many parts; Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea will "go for trade" with China and its allies....Europe will see old lines returning. Eastern Europe can not escape from being close to Russia...Turkey wants to increase its role/rule in SE Europe....I hope/expect German rearmament will stop in time...1914-1918, 1939-1945 should not be repeated....Europe can be a "hub" for EurAsian/African and (Latin) American trade....but not on a neo-colonial basis...and only with wiser leaders...

But if the EU/UK/US want to stay in conflict modus they will be marginalized high speed...fiat-currency is NOT a basis for "strength"....

Pandemics,

[url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/monkeypox/monkeypox-cdc-advises-travellers-to-wear-a-mask/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/monkeypox/monkeypox-cdc-advises-travellers-to-wear-a-mask/

The US CDC has amended its advice for travellers for Monkeypox, just one week after its last revision. The latest advice recommends wearing a facemask – “Wear a mask. Wearing a mask can help protect you from many diseases, including Monkeypox.”

It is probably now just a matter of days before the World Health Organisation declares Monkeypox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, or PHEIC.

DJ, I still think monkeypox and other diseases (CJD ???) may somehow be related to CoViD(vaccines)...Lots of diseases now behaving in an unusual way with BA.5 CoViD numbers going up again has to be related...

Wow. #Covid19 wastewater monitoring in the U.S. by https://biobot.io/data/ is showing that the current level of #SARSCoV2 viral concentration is ~800 copies/mL: on par with peaks of the initial spring '20, fall/winter '20/'21 & summer '21 waves. 4x MORE than 2021 spring wave!

and 








Single case report. “This case appears to confirm the concerns that the CD4+ T-cell depletion associated with COVID-19 may promote the development of active tuberculosis from latent infection much like HIV does.”

From China; 

Chinese authorities urge residents of a city bordering North Korea to close their windows on days with southerly winds. Residents suspect authorities are considering the possibility that the Covid virus is being carried through the air from North Korea

DJ-So will "masks" be a "new normal" ? Massive illness destroy societies ? I hope not !

Climate collapse,

[url]http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2022/06/cataclysmic-alignment.html[/url] or http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2022/06/cataclysmic-alignment.html

Greenhouse gas levels are very high and there are many further indications that a huge temperature rise could take place over the next few years. 

Cataclysmic alignment of El Niño and sunspots

The trigger for such a huge rise could be a cataclysmic alignment of the upcoming El Niño with a high number of sunspots, which look set to reach maximum impact around July 2025.

DJ The "North Pole" is becoming part of the Atlantic Ocean....within years most of the ice may be gone there....

Of course pandemics, climate change, wars and "human interactions" are related....We are on a global Titanic fighting over who may get to the life rafts-destroying those life rafts...and still claim to be "homo sapiens" ; intelligent apes....

Time for a very strong coffee ! Hope all the info is way to pessimistic....stay safe&sane !

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Part 2, 

A few links;

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-bilderberg-does-china-realizes-chessboard-sucks[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-bilderberg-does-china-realizes-chessboard-sucks 

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/06/ukraine-beyond-day-100-breaking-resistance-deep-operation-a-new-country.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/06/ukraine-beyond-day-100-breaking-resistance-deep-operation-a-new-country.html 

DJ-Ukraine is only part of a much larger conflict between "the west" and-basiccally "the rest"....but the "west does not even want to know that"....

-Ukraine is losing the war against Russia-had no real chance. Now the west is pushing for "talks" with some hardliners (US,UK, Poland) also pushing for more war, escalation...

Ukraine may go for a false flag-shooting missiles on Poland, Romania, Moldova trying to pull them-and if possible NATO-into the war with Russia. Russia considers itself allready to be fighting NATO in Ukraine....We should NOT be in this scenario !!!

I do not think both Obama or Trump would have "moved towards provocation/escalation"...Biden may be seen as "unfit" for the job in lots of countries....It is not honest to put all the blame on biden...the EU should and could have stopped this war...bojo/UK  has a "Churchill-syndrome" , wants to be a "great war-leader" that neede a war....Napoleon-Macron in France also did not help...

There were Minsk-agreements (twice !!!) both broken by Ukraine and the west accepted that...Ukraine still is shelling/killing Russians in the east of Ukraine...the secret police picking up "pro-Russians" in the Kiev-controlled area...Still the west calls the fascist Kiev-regime a "democracy"....The present rulers in Ukraine do NOT have much support (any longer) in Ukraine...Zelensky did get elected to END the war-not to escalate it...

So I do not see room for talks any longer...I expect Russia wants to send a very clear signal; most of the east and south of Ukraine will be part of Russia (again-MoA-map). Under the czars Ukraine WAS part of Russia...Lenin did give "Ukraine an independent status" within the Soviet Union-one of the 15 member states. (Finland was allowed to go its own way-after a civil war-but was part of Russia till 1917...)

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkey-tells-sweden-stop-wasting-natos-time-over-pointless-nato-bid[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkey-tells-sweden-stop-wasting-natos-time-over-pointless-nato-bid Turkey now did get in a power-position...and will use that till the max ! (Maybe that limit could be NATO kicking Turkey out...but that would be the end of NATO...). In "exchange" for Finland and Sweden joining NATO a.o. Turkey wants to "deal" with the Kurds...most likely ALL of them...both in Turkey and in Syria and Iraq. For that goal Turkey may work with Iran and Syria....replacing the US/Israel-Kurdish alliance with a Turkish/Iranian one....kicking the US out of the Middle East....

Russia was a longer term ally of the Kurds (part of it was cold-war related; most Kurds live in NATO-Turkey, but the PKK-and some other Kurdish groups had also political views that fitted in the Soviet ideology...). 

The outcome of the US$ as a weapon, sanctionswar from the west is that west is getting marginalized...Russia, India, China doing more trade with Africa, Latin America...

DJ-Before starting a conflict one should have "a view of the battlefields"....the "west" does keep failing here...An elite having shares in "war/weapons production" is of course making a lot of money...(just like big-pharma shareholders were allowed to profit from the present healthcrisis). But that on its own does not explain the absurdity that after military disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan the US/NATO now did become the main factor in a war (in Ukraine most) with Russia....

Western weapons/training do "not do well" in Ukraine..."we" the west, are running out of weapons and basics for more weapon-production (materials but also some micro-chips has to come from countries we are now almost at war with...). 

The idea of an EU boycotting Russian oil but buying "oil-products" made from Russian oil in India, Turkey is "absurd" ! Insane ! Destroying the EU economy...giving Asia (low energy/labor costs) is the outcome of EU "leaders/destroyers" that seem to be unable to understand what they are doing...

Fiat-currency is allready seeing inflation...One Euro now is less then 90% of its value one year ago....hyperinflation may be around the corner...What if a dollar or Euro early 2023 is only 10% or less of its 2021 value ????Most of the "west" population ending up in poverty...

Social unrest will go up with more diseases spreading, trillions spent on a war "we" can NOT win ! A housing/healthcare crisis as the outcome of "low taxes for the rich neo-liberalism"...Again 1776, 1789 (US/French revolution) will repeat itself....

A democracy only can function if representatives of the people work for the people....

But "the powers that be" rather may go for nuclear war....I need another coffee...a strong one...stay safe&sane ! 

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roni3470-I hope you do recover-without the long CoViD/long(er) term healthissues....

To many stories on "breakthrough" infections-people catching the virus (again) after vaccination. Indeed the present vaccines may have "very limited use" against BA.4/5 now getting dominant...(as far as I get the info). 

A remarkable view into the biology of this virus and just how fast new (sub)variants take over For flu - its on order of months/years when sweeps occurs With SARS-CoV-2, immunity & high transmissibility put pressure on the virus to shapeshift - and the most fit sweeps


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DJ, "CoViD" has gone "exponential"....There have been a lot of studies on nasal vaccines-hope they see mass production/use (very) soon...otherwise we are in lots of problems...

I did expect the exponential growth-if there is not enough limits to a virus it will go "wild"...I did not expect it would result in opening doors for all kind of other diseases on such a large scale...but again I am NOT any kind of expert-believe a "helicopter-view" is needed to balance (often very good) expert views...

[url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/deaths/preprint-long-term-mortality-following-sars-cov-2-infection/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/deaths/preprint-long-term-mortality-following-sars-cov-2-infection/

People infected with SARS-COV-2 had more than three times the risk of dying over the following year compared with those who remained uninfected.

Short-term mortality (up to 5 weeks post-infection) was significantly higher among COVID-19 group than in the reference group.

For COVID-19 cases aged 60 years or older, increased mortality persisted until the end of the first year after infection, and was related to increased risk for cardiovascular, cancer, respiratory system diseases, and other causes of death.

Increased risk of death from SARS-CoV-2 is not limited to the acute illness: SARS-CoV-2 infection carries a substantially increased mortality in the following 12 months. This excess death mainly occurs in older people and is driven by broad array of causes of death.

Lancet preprint: Long-term mortality following SARS-CoV-2 infection: A national cohort study from Estonia

DJ; As far as I know there have been limited studies on the healtheffects of vaccines...Problem with the studies on corona-patients that did get vaccinated is it may be not that easy to detect what complaints/symptoms were the result of CoViD and what did the vaccines do....

[url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/monkeypox/cdc-at-least-two-distinct-monkeypox-outbreaks-underway/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/monkeypox/cdc-at-least-two-distinct-monkeypox-outbreaks-underway/ DJ-There must-by now-be some basic idea on the vaccination status of monkeypox patients ? A lot of them were on the "party-going-age" and may not have been vaccinated. Did they have (asymptomatic) CoViD ? I think the relation with high monkeypox numbers and CoViD is more then just timing !

[url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/monkeypox/who-monkeypox-may-be-airborne/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/monkeypox/who-monkeypox-may-be-airborne/ but some info also that the present monkeypoxvirus(ses ?) seem to mutate a lot faster-if spread increases so the mutationlevel will change-more mutations=more variants. 

So IF you want to stop the virus you have to limit the virus. And we are NOT doing that. I think "freedom" should NOT mean freedom for all kind of (latent) virusses/diseases to spread...With vaccines getting "much less effective" Non Pharma Intervention is the only other proven "defense-line"...but we are NOT using that so-more disease is on its way....

[url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/europe/portugal/portugal-20-of-all-covid-19-pandemic-infections-have-occured-since-ba-5-was-first-reported/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/europe/portugal/portugal-20-of-all-covid-19-pandemic-infections-have-occured-since-ba-5-was-first-reported/ and [url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/europe/denmark/denmark-ba-5-up-135-in-a-month/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/europe/denmark/denmark-ba-5-up-135-in-a-month/  and

[url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-infections-rising-in-the-united-states-144,258-new-infections-in-the-last-24-hours-and-420-deaths-hospital-beds-fast-running-out-in-certain-s[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-infections-rising-in-the-united-states-144,258-new-infections-in-the-last-24-hours-and-420-deaths-hospital-beds-fast-running-out-in-certain-s tates

DJ-Like monkeypox the CoVid BA.5 has its roots in Africa...

[url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/science/side-effects/sars-cov-2-can-infect-and-kill-different-immunity-cell-types-independently-of-ace2/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/science/side-effects/sars-cov-2-can-infect-and-kill-different-immunity-cell-types-independently-of-ace2/  DJ This is NOT (yet) ADE (there the immunesystem SPREADS the disease !)  but CoViD seem to "destroy" (at least part of) immunity....in that way opening doors to all kinds of other diseases..

and 

[url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/coronavirus/sars-cov-2-infection-and-persistence-throughout-the-human-body-and-brain/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/coronavirus/sars-cov-2-infection-and-persistence-throughout-the-human-body-and-brain/ The CoViD variants-once in a host-may be hard to get rid of. Some people had different CoViD variants in different organs...(and may have seen some spread via stool-while "nose/mouth swabs-testing" did not detect any virus...(New variants may evade some testing anyway. A lot of at-home-tests look for only three segments of the virus-if one or more of those segments are missing the test can not detect the virus). 

DJ-My idea on the "healthcrisis"? To be honest is getting very pessimistic....we may have a few effective-on the longer term-tools;

-NPI; in this case long term limiting social contacts, reducing airtravel to the minimum....lockdowns/(better) testing...

-Sewage testing can be increased-both on locations and on sort of diseases/variants

-Nasal vaccines can be of use...maybe some effective anti-virals may have use..

-International cooperation is urgent ! [url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-chinese-scientists-identify-new-sars-cov-2-gamma-variants-in-shandong-relaxation-of-lockdown-is-due-to-failed-zero-covid-policies-not-success[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-chinese-scientists-identify-new-sars-cov-2-gamma-variants-in-shandong-relaxation-of-lockdown-is-due-to-failed-zero-covid-policies-not-success 

We need to know what is happening in China...in Africa, Latin America...sharing of info is vital ! 

For now the virus is winning-giving room for also lots of other diseases. Without trying to be dramatic; if we do not STOP it it will kill us...

End of part 1

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Originally posted by roni3470 roni3470 wrote:

Just from my point of view.....I have had both vaccines and one booster here in Denver, CO.  I had COVID at Christmas and again right now.  Both times I got really sick for about 2 weeks.  I have asthma so used my steroid inhaler, and multiple other home things to stay as healthy as possible.  Based on the fact that I am anti-flu vaccine, I think I will now become anti-COVID vaccine.  I am glad I got the initial ones, but now believe there is no really good way to fight this.  It evolves and changes and we can't keep up and we haven't tested the effects of all the vaccines!  So I fall in the middle...believe in the initial jabs but also believe they need to stop.  My two cents!

 The current shots for Covid were developed for the Alpha strain 2 and a half years ago and now we're on Omicron which bears very little similarity to Alpha. Covid has evolved and will doubtless continue to do so, so those original shots are surely outdated.

Those who got it wrong, for whatever reason, may feel defensive and retrench into a position that doesn’t accord with the facts.
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Just from my point of view.....I have had both vaccines and one booster here in Denver, CO.  I had COVID at Christmas and again right now.  Both times I got really sick for about 2 weeks.  I have asthma so used my steroid inhaler, and multiple other home things to stay as healthy as possible.  Based on the fact that I am anti-flu vaccine, I think I will now become anti-COVID vaccine.  I am glad I got the initial ones, but now believe there is no really good way to fight this.  It evolves and changes and we can't keep up and we haven't tested the effects of all the vaccines!  So I fall in the middle...believe in the initial jabs but also believe they need to stop.  My two cents!

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I need a lot of very strong coffee to write down my idea of where we are now...."stupid did win" so what does it bring / 

-WAR;

-Putin had a meeting with African leaders, Russia will provide grain to Africa, Arab world. One of the problems was the west kicking most Russian banks out of SWIFT-international banking...so Africa also will buy Russian oil for Rubles...

-Biden was expecting EU limiting Russian oil-import could bring "low price" Russian oil for the US. But Russia has no interests in that...Russia decreased production, increased storage and refinery capacity...Also more oil/gas for non western countries. 

-EU sanctions on Greek (!!!!) tanker-insurance transporting that Russian oil has those tankers now being insured by Russian insurance companies...(no doubt India, China, Turkey also may join that market !)

-Older news is of course Argentina, Saudi Arabia talking of joining BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa cooperation). Also a lot of western retail in Russia-being sold to Turkish investors...

-EU may buy oil-products from countries like Turkey, India...fooling themselves it is NOT made from Russian oil. Bloomberg made an estimate that western sanctions mean Russia making another 285 US$ billion extra in 2022. Production costs for Russian oil around 45US$, India buying it for around 70,-. Global market at 120 US$ p.b. ....

-A.o. Javelin anti-tank weapons NOT going to Ukraine but offered on the internet...So Europe may see a lot of heavy weapons in criminal hands...

The Ukraine war has the US seeking a balance between "international escalation" and collapse. Some people around Obama warned Russia had the "escalation-dominance" in Ukraine-the US should stay out of sinking to deep in that conflict (Obama pushed for the Syria front). Poland is running out of money and military hardware-housing over 3 million Ukraine refugees...The Polish economy is close to collapse...

DJ-The west went for escalation in Ukraine....sanctions war...Got itself in major troubles...I think the west has to accept some kind of "peace deal" that may at least some face...However the longer the west is waiting the higher the price it will be....

My guess is Turkey is maybe seeking cooperation with Iran, Syria, Russia to "deal" with the Kurds in Syria and Iraq. The west will think twice before punishing Turkey-they need Turkey to agree on Sweden, Finland joining NATO....Problem for the western neo-cons is most likely other countries (Hungary a.o.) may also have problems with that idea...Parliament elections in France may push Macron to "slow down" NATO expansion....In the US the republicans may show doubts...so Sweden, Finland joining NATO "can take some time"...

Turkey/Erdogan will use that time...Orban-Hungary will use that time....I do not know if NATO can survive this self-made crisis....

And maybe the "war" is the "good news".....

The pandemic is going even worse than I expected in a worst case scenario...

New variants of CoViD result in more long term damage, not stopped by immunity after earlier infection or present vaccination. Monkeypox cases will be over 1,000 as far as reported. Other diseases seem to be increasing as well...

Put on top of that a worsening climate situation. "Alex" -most likely not strong enough to become a cat.1 hurricane-will push warm water/air to the Arctic after crossing Florida. 

We are in a "slow crash"...however it can become a western collapse much faster then most people can imagine...The "west" is no longer in the "global driver seat"....

Stay safe and sane !

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DJ, Not much time-to much news;

War;

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/flash-russian-foreign-minister-says-3rd-country-could-become-involved-in-ukraine-conflict[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/flash-russian-foreign-minister-says-3rd-country-could-become-involved-in-ukraine-conflict unclear what country is meant; could be Moldova, Poland joining Ukraine, could be Belarus joining Russia...may even mean US/UK escalating further this war with more weapons, intel etc. Intel could mean US/UK "guiding" an Ukraine missile towards a (pro)Russian target....

[url]https://southfront.org/4-nato-warships-arrive-in-finland-for-military-exercices/[/url] or https://southfront.org/4-nato-warships-arrive-in-finland-for-military-exercices/ and [url]https://southfront.org/erdogan-says-turkish-military-operation-will-target-syrias-tell-rifaat-manbij/[/url] or https://southfront.org/erdogan-says-turkish-military-operation-will-target-syrias-tell-rifaat-manbij/ Erdogan pushing up the price for Sweden, Finland getting into NATO. 

DJ-However the "big story"-very sad-is end of international order...UN, WHO etc. all are becoming "political"...the "illness" that first spread in the US, wearing a mask against CoViD had become political-now seems to go global....

Health, 

[url]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#weekly_table[/url] or https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#weekly_table global Covid cases may still be decreasing-lots of countries stopped testing/reporting-still over 500,000 new cases per day. Real number between 2 and 3 million per day ? 

Kenya cases +115%, Brazil +104%, Botswana +95%, Mexico +59%, India +37%, Hong Kong +25%,  Israel +21% BA.4/5 are increasing worldwide....[url]https://deadline.com/2022/05/omicron-ba-4-ba-5-variants-increase-1235035960/[/url] or https://deadline.com/2022/05/omicron-ba-4-ba-5-variants-increase-1235035960/ due to mutations better in evading immunity...

[url]https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/outbreaks-diseases-such-monkeypox-becoming-more-frequent-warns-who-2022-06-01/[/url] or https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/outbreaks-diseases-such-monkeypox-becoming-more-frequent-warns-who-2022-06-01/ and [url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-sudden-outbreak-of-new-viral-disease-called-tomato-flu-or-tomato-fever-affecting-young-children-in-many-states-in-india[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-sudden-outbreak-of-new-viral-disease-called-tomato-flu-or-tomato-fever-affecting-young-children-in-many-states-in-india so other diseases on the increase...

Monkeypox cases [url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/health-authorities-warns-that-monkeypox-could-be-spreading-silently--global-cases-now-700-with-thousands-under-investigations-in-32-countries[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/health-authorities-warns-that-monkeypox-could-be-spreading-silently--global-cases-now-700-with-thousands-under-investigations-in-32-countries is just one of the "new diseases"...

As the climate change contributes to rapidly changing weather conditions like drought, animals and human are changing their food-seeking behaviour. As a result, diseases that typically circulate in animals are increasingly jumping into humans, he said.


"Unfortunately, that ability to amplify that disease and move it on within our communities is increasing - so both disease emergence and disease amplification factors have increased."

DJ On top of that billion+ CoViD infections will have damaged immunity - lots of spread outside humans....

[url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/africa/uk-monkeypox-cannot-be-eradicated-by-vaccination-alone-due-to-animal-reservoirs/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/africa/uk-monkeypox-cannot-be-eradicated-by-vaccination-alone-due-to-animal-reservoirs/

“Monkeypox has a wide range of hosts, which has allowed it to maintain a reservoir… it therefore cannot be eradicated by human vaccination alone.”

Monkeypox has a wide range of hosts, which has allowed it to maintain a reservoir in wild animals while sporadically causing human disease. It therefore cannot be eradicated by human vaccination alone, although it may be possible to be controlled by targeted vaccination of humans (using a smallpox vaccine, which is approved for use against MPX) and culling animal reservoirs in certain circumstances.

The probability of infection would be considered moderate to high for individuals interacting with infected pets (notably rodents) and their contaminated environments.

DJ, New types of disease will show up in non-human hosts. Spread via urine/droppings...animals being eaten by other animals....

Climate;

[url]https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=5[/url] or https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=5 Hurricane moving towards Florida. We allready had lots of flooding, wildfires, drought and heat this year....

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I would have to think even more about getting yet another (booster) vaccination...Again; where are the nasal-new-vaccines ? Why is vaccines not part of a larger strategy...there is NO basic idea...just lies....on how to deal with this-most likely worsening-pandemic. 

[url]https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/south-america/superpower-bacteria-discovered-in-antarctica-20220526-p5aou4.html[/url] or https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/south-america/superpower-bacteria-discovered-in-antarctica-20220526-p5aou4.html 

and [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/geologists-crack-open-830-million-year-old-crystal-potential-life-inside[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/geologists-crack-open-830-million-year-old-crystal-potential-life-inside 

Lots of "old diseases" could be waking up...CoViD may have weakened immunity...this is only the beginning ? 

The main reason why monkeypox cases did not go up is weekend; like with CoViD less testing and reporting....[url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/monkeypox/uk-monkeypox-classified-as-an-airborne-high-consequence-infectious-disease/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/monkeypox/uk-monkeypox-classified-as-an-airborne-high-consequence-infectious-disease/ ;

The UK has classified Monkeypox as a high consequence airborne infectious disease In a recently updated document by the UKHSA, along with MERS, Nipah virus, SARS1 and Pneumonic plague.

DJ [url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-emergence-of-new-surge-of-crimean-congo-haemorrhagic-fever-in-iraq-and-sporadic-cases-elsewhere-worries-the-world-health-organization[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-emergence-of-new-surge-of-crimean-congo-haemorrhagic-fever-in-iraq-and-sporadic-cases-elsewhere-worries-the-world-health-organization 

We may be in the exponential phase for CoViD-with people catching CoViD over and over-sometimes different sub-variants at the same time...but since the number of cases is that large; must be over 1 billion ! with also lots of spread in non-human hosts- all kinds of other diseases see a chance. With over 100 million refugees-and more to come-restart of international air travel-virus fly for free-how this health crisis can stop ????

Hospital cases are limited-for now. Excess deaths however are above "normal" in many countries. [url]https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps[/url] or https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps and

[url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/children/preprint-covid-19-a-leading-cause-of-death-in-kids-aged-0-19-years-in-the-us/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/children/preprint-covid-19-a-leading-cause-of-death-in-kids-aged-0-19-years-in-the-us/ ;

Covid-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people aged 0-19 years in the US, ranking #9 among all causes of deaths, #5 in disease related causes of deaths (excluding accidents, assault and suicide), and #1 in deaths caused by infectious / respiratory diseases.

Due to the impact of mitigations such as social distancing and our comparison of a single disease (Covid-19) to groups of causes such as deaths from pneumonia and influenza, these rankings are likely conservative lower bounds.

Preprint: Covid-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people ages 0-19 years in the United States

Also [url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/children/taiwan-acute-encephalitis-in-children-caused-by-covid-19/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/children/taiwan-acute-encephalitis-in-children-caused-by-covid-19/ ;

COVID-19 has caused acute encephalitis, a life-threatening complication, in a number of children in Taiwan, which local physicians believe may be due to factors such as an excessive immune response, immature blood-brain barrier, genes, and the environment.

Of the 22 severe COVID-19 cases of children aged 1-12 as of Sunday, 11 of the patients developed acute encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).

For the 10 deaths linked to the disease in that age group since April 19, acute encephalitis was a factor in five of those, the CECC statistics showed.

Physicians have come up with different explanations for the high rate of acute encephalitis found in severe child COVID-19 cases, while the CECC is planning to investigate possible causes of what it described as an “increasing trend” that was also observed in Hong Kong.

FocusTaiwan.tw report

DJ-some facts being ignored;

-CoViD does do damage all over the body....from the brain to the liver...skin !

-A virus can stay in the body-even hide to show up later- so it may be easy to catch a virus but hard to get rid of...

-By now there will be lots of people with older CoViD-variants in their body. Catching newer subvariants can create new recombinations...

-CoViD in animals is missed in most cases...simply ignored...

[url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-emerging-data-on-monkeypox-causes-u-s-cdc-to-raise-travel-alert-to-level-two-with-possibility-of-being-raised-to-level-3-in-days[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-emerging-data-on-monkeypox-causes-u-s-cdc-to-raise-travel-alert-to-level-two-with-possibility-of-being-raised-to-level-3-in-days link to [url]https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/alert/monkeypox[/url] or https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/alert/monkeypox ;

Key points

  • Cases of monkeypox have been reported in Europe, North America, and Australia (see full list of countries below).  Some cases were reported among men who have sex with men. Some cases were also reported in people who live in the same household as an infected person.
  • None of these people reported having recently been in central or west African countries where monkeypox usually occurs, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria, among others.
  • Travelers should AVOID:
    • Close contact with sick people, including those with skin lesions or genital lesions.
    • Contact with dead or live wild animals such as small mammals including rodents (rats, squirrels) and non-human primates (monkeys, apes).

DJ Another link; [url]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3556235/[/url] or https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3556235/ ;

Here the susceptibility to aerosolization of the monkeypox virus (MPXV), associated with emerging zoonotic diseases, was studied using a 10.7 liter rotating chamber. This chamber was built to fit inside a Class three biological safety cabinet, specifically for studying airborne biosafety level three (BSL3) microorganisms. 

Airborne viruses were detected by culture and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) after up to 90 hours of aging. Viral concentrations detected dropped by two logs for culture analysis and by one log for qPCR analysis within the first 18 hours of aging; viral concentrations were stable between 18 and 90 hours, suggesting a potential for the MPXV to retain infectivity in aerosols for more than 90 hours. 

The rotating chamber used in this study maintained viral particles airborne successfully for prolonged periods and could be used to study the susceptibility of other BSL3 microorganisms.

So monkeypox is believed to spread airborne...(within certain limits...). [url]https://twitter.com/sebpoule/status/1529300460322050048?s=20&t=9NsgJHjb2UGuBkM81fwUFw[/url] or https://twitter.com/sebpoule/status/1529300460322050048?s=20&t=9NsgJHjb2UGuBkM81fwUFw ;

#MonkeyPox #IDtwitter My patient with MonkeyPox suspicion is now confirmed by PCR. I can share with you some important details that I could not before. ➡️ The bottom line of this tweet will be; «We must have a high index of suspicion for ‘atypical’ MonkeyPox cases»
Monkeypox lesions take 2-3 weeks to heal. A person is contagious until the lesions are healed. Most people who don’t have paid sick days cannot go weeks without a paycheck If we don’t have emergency financial assistance for people with monkeypox, there will be no containing this

DJ, Monkeypox cases go up while also BA.4/BA.5 (Africa linked) is getting more dominant [url]https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.26.493539v1[/url] or https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.26.493539v1 .

The detected and sequenced monkeypox virus has lots of mutations compared to the older West Africa variant;

-Did monkeypox mutate in a person that also had CoViD ?

-Did monkeypox patients get (mild/asymptomatic) CoViD earlier ? Again also were they vaccinated and with what ? That kind of info should be available !!!! 

It may be to early to draw conclusions-but NOT mentioning it may "increase worries". If "a certain vaccine" against CoViD would see "a lot of monkeypox cases" one could ask questions on that vaccine....DJ-Most likely a lot of monkey pox patients did NOT get any vaccine (against CoViD)...

For the US;

#COVID19 #VariantDashboard - #UnitedStates  TOP lineages (15-DAY TRENDS): 47.48% BA.2.12.1**, 28.38% BA.2, 4.82% BA.2.3, 4.68% BA.2.12, 4.07% BA.2.9,   2.95% BA.5/BA.4^^ ** S:L452Q; ^^ S:L452R/F486V Tracker (by location): http://tinyurl.com/mryj4uu7  #OmicronUpdates 05/29/22

DJ BA.4/5 is increasing worldwide...

🚨URGENT🚨: One of the most prestigious virology labs in the world, the ones who confirmed BA 2 was more pathogenic than BA 1, Sato Labs, released a new study that finds that the VOCs BA4/5 as well as BA 2.12.1 are more INFECTIOUS and PATHOGENIC over BA 2

statistics have their limits. A lot of countries simply stopped reporting CoViD cases...DIY/home-tests may fail in detecting new sub-variants. Hospitalcases do not have to increase-a lot of milder cases develop problems later on-never end up in hospital (some just die !!)....

So the "big picture" is "not good"....

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Thanks Josh for the insight. I'll also keep my eyes peeled for info relating to Covid vaccines and Monkeypox. Both cousins mentioned had every jab they were offered, and the one still alive is about to have jab number 6 in the UK. It's complete madness if you ask me.

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KiwiMum, sorry to hear about your cousins....Did they get [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles#Prevention[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles#Prevention vaccinated against any kind of [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_zoster_virus[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_zoster_virus ? The NL wikipedia-page has shingles increasing in 60+ y/o...with immunity getting weaker due to age. Also more spread in summer...

CoViD itself may be the "main push factor" decreasing general immunity...most likely more people did get CoViD then any vaccine....Just sharing my non-expert thoughts...[url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/while-sars-cov-2-surges,-new-strains-of-pathogens-responsible-for-ebola,-monkey-pox,-legionnaires-disease,-lyme-disease,-etc-are-emerging[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/while-sars-cov-2-surges,-new-strains-of-pathogens-responsible-for-ebola,-monkey-pox,-legionnaires-disease,-lyme-disease,-etc-are-emerging has a list of diseases that are increasing....TMN links that with CoViD (and yes-I do think vaccines may provide som complications....but I do not have the knowledge to say much on that...maybe I will find some info on twitter...but I try to get a "helicopterview" the "big picture", I know a bit of history...have limited time to inform myself...). 

[url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/monkeypox/monkeypox-summer-wave/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/monkeypox/monkeypox-summer-wave/ ; comparing CoViD/Monkeypox statistics...

DJ...we have a lot of viruses, bacteria etc. with us...our immunity is keeping them under control. But by now I would expect statistics on monkeypox cases being vaccinated against CoViD (and what vaccine they had...). Maybe the statistics are not (yet) that clear...Certainly UK, Spain, Portugal (all three with lots of monkeypox cases) should have statistics on CoViD-vaccines in those cases...(My impression-but nothing more then that-is that "party-people" may have lower then average vaccinations....for that matter we are in very early stages...). 

[url]https://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/shingles[/url] or https://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/shingles

Shingles (also called herpes zoster) is a painful skin rash caused by the reactivation of the chickenpox (varicella-zoster) virus in people who have previously had chickenpox. Shingles can occur at any age, but as people get older their chance of getting the disease increases, and complications also become more common. People with a weakened immune system are also at higher risk of shingles. Although rare, it is possible to have shingles more than once.

In England and Wales there are about 50,000 cases of shingles in people aged 70 or above every year, and it is estimated that about 50 of these cases result in death. Around one in four adults will experience shingles in their lifetime. In September 2013 the UK introduced a shingles vaccine, which is offered to people when they turn 70.

DJ, With England having 50,000 cases in the 70+ age group each year there HAVE TO BE statistics on CoViD-vaccines and shingles....(the link is from january 2019...). I look if I can see a study on "shingles and vaccines" without ending up in "vaccines against shingles"....

[url]https://www.cureus.com/articles/74357-oral-herpes-zoster-infection-following-covid-19-vaccination-a-report-of-five-cases[/url] or https://www.cureus.com/articles/74357-oral-herpes-zoster-infection-following-covid-19-vaccination-a-report-of-five-cases ;

Abstract

Recently, two cases of oral herpes zoster (HZ) following COVID-19 vaccines were reported. It was suggested that COVID-19 vaccine-related oral HZ cases might be missed or misdiagnosed as stomatitis or isolated oral herpes. In this report, five cases of oral HZ following COVID-19 vaccinations are presented. Four cases were observed on the hard palate (V2), and one case was found on the mandible (V3). Four patients did not receive any treatment for their oral HZ, but one patient also had skin reactions on her right orbit and ear and was thus treated with an antiviral drug. As these cases were seen during such a short period of time and in one practice, the relationship with the COVID-19 vaccination appears to be related.

DJ A november 10-2021 study....It is generally accepted that varicella zoster virus (VZV) rests latent in the trigeminal ganglia (TG) and spinal dorsal root ganglia (DRG). The reactivation of the VZV in the TG causes herpes zoster (HZ) in the lower, middle, or upper face, or even in the oral cavity, depending on the involvement of the ophthalmic division (V1), the maxillary division (V2), or the mandibular division (V3) of the trigeminal nerve.

Monkeypox [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeypox_virus[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeypox_virus ; Monkeypox virus (MPV or MPXV) is a double-stranded DNA virus that causes monkeypox in humans and other animals. It belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus in the family Poxviridae. It is one of the human orthopoxviruses that includes variola (VARV)cowpox (CPX), and vaccinia (VACV) viruses. It is not a direct ancestor to, nor a direct descendant of, the variola virus, which causes smallpox. Monkeypox disease is similar to smallpox, but with a milder rash and lower mortality rate.[1][2][3]

DJ So the virus behind monkeypox and shingles are "related"....could a latent dormant virus express itself now in a different way ? Will statistics for "shingles" decrease-while monkeypox numbers go up ? Virologists must be watching this....epidemiologists and medical staticians may find more...and not only on monkeypox...

CoViD itself can cause-in limited cases-skin problems. [url]https://www.lareb.nl/bijwerkingen-coronavaccins[/url] or https://www.lareb.nl/bijwerkingen-coronavaccins (in Dutch-google translate !) skin problems (shortly) after CoViD-vaccinations are very rare in NL....but the problems may be in the long term consequences...[url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/new-published-study-by-researcher-from-mit-warns-about-possible-consequences-from-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-a-must-read-for-all[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/new-published-study-by-researcher-from-mit-warns-about-possible-consequences-from-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-a-must-read-for-all for that matter deserves another look....

DJ-I myself did get four vaccines, two Pfizer and two booster-Moderna....but I am "an old man"....willing to take some risks...

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Josh I'd be really interested to know the statistics of whether the monkeypox people have had their Covid jabs. The reason I ask is that 2 of my cousins, both who are immuno compromised, have had every vaccine offered to them - which was plenty - and both developed shingles within a week of one of their jabs. One of them died 5 weeks later, and the other has shingles on the face, which by all accounts looks like these monkey pox cases. A specialist team from the hospital have swabbed the rash and concluded that it is shingles, not monkeypox, but what's interesting me is that since the vaccines were first offered, there has been a huge uptick in shingles cases. 

It's well documented now that the Covid vaccines damage a persons T cells and thus, their immune system, and as any medical doctor can tell you, shingles in an adult is an indicator that the immune system is compromised and so the Zoster Herpes virus (chickenpox) which lies dormant in 90% of us, has had the opportunity to reemerge. 

Can you find that info????

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In general discussion I put "lists"....I do think the CoViD pandemic has to be related with hepatitis and monkeypox. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG8txZgpLF4[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG8txZgpLF4 ;This week, Tim's looking at the latest global outbreak of monkeypox and discusses if we should be concerned about it, and if we're seeing signs of the symptoms in the ZOE Health Study app. He also discusses the current rates and recaps the differences between Omicron BA.1 and BA.2.

[url]https://covid.joinzoe.com/[/url] or https://covid.joinzoe.com/ DJ- ZOE is following widespread symptoms-so far most related to CoVid...but if monkeypox symptoms would spread the picture of reported symptoms would change. UK CoViD-cases going up in youn age <17 y/o and in Scotland-both indicating the present R0 of 1.0 for the UK may go up...1-in-37 now reporting symptoms. 

[url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/448-cases-of-monkeypox-now-in-25-countries-with-another-17-probable-cases-pending-test-results,-1086-suspected-cases-being-investigated-uk-leads-with[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/448-cases-of-monkeypox-now-in-25-countries-with-another-17-probable-cases-pending-test-results,-1086-suspected-cases-being-investigated-uk-leads-with 107 cases. 

DJ-If a disease starts behaving differently-with a pandemic background (like CoViD)-you have to ask what role the pandemic is playing. If [url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/while-sars-cov-2-surges,-new-strains-of-pathogens-responsible-for-ebola,-monkey-pox,-legionnaires-disease,-lyme-disease,-etc-are-emerging[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/while-sars-cov-2-surges,-new-strains-of-pathogens-responsible-for-ebola,-monkey-pox,-legionnaires-disease,-lyme-disease,-etc-are-emerging other diseases-several-start increasing-that sign should be alarming ! 

U.S. COVID update: - New cases: 141,078 - Average: 110,515 (-698) - States reporting: 32/50 - In hospital: 26,080 (+180) - In ICU: 2,826 (+13) - New deaths: 424 - Average: 364 (-11) More data: https://charts.medriva.com/us

[url]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#main_table[/url] or https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#main_table mentions less then 100,000 new US cases...






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BA.5 at around 79% now in Portugal! BA.4 still hasn't been detected. BA.2.12.1 has, but was still < 1%. https://insaflu.insa.pt/covid19/


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A look at trends has no data for Portugal....Still 74 monkeypox cases reported from Portugal (BA.5 and monkeypox both have an African link). Also Portugal has 11 cases of "new"hepatitis. (Is there a link with BA.4 ???)

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DJ, 

I did have time in the morning to combine breakfast with pandemic news...Since scenario's crashed-the pandemic far from over-I share my ideas/breakfast with this forum...

The growth advantage that BA.4/5 has over BA.2* is remarkable. In the UK (chosen because of consistent sequencing), the rel advantage is on the order of 15% per day, i.e. rel share doubles every 5 days. UK is estimated to hit 50% BA.4/5 share this week. 1https://cov-spectrum.org/explore/United%20Kingdom/AllSamples/Past2M/variants?variantQuery=BA.2*+%7C+BA.4*+%7C+BA.5*&variantQuery1=BA.4*+%7C+BA.5*+%7C+%28BA.2*+%26+12160A+%26+9866C+%26+%2827788T+%7C+27259A%29%29&analysisMode=CompareToBaseline&

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BA.4/5 are significantly fitter (~7%/day) than one of the fittest BA.2 daughter lineages: BA.2.12.1 In the US, BA.4/5 are increasing in share as expected for a fitter variant. This means: BA.4/5 are going to become dominant. I don't see any known variant as being competitive. 4/

and 

What astonishes me is how few mutations were necessary to produce this large growth advantage. S:452R on its own does not seem to provide any advantage to BA.2, it must be the other 2: S:486V and  S:Q493R reversion or alternatively some interaction (epistasis) between them. 2/

DJ In fact two points; BA.4/5 is taking over from BA.2.12.1 (now dominant in the US) and increasing....AND a few mutations can create a new fast spreading sub-variant. 

[url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/pollution/preprint-association-between-air-pollution-and-covid-19-severity/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/pollution/preprint-association-between-air-pollution-and-covid-19-severity/

Chronic exposure to air pollution may contribute to severe outcomes after SARS-CoV-2 infection, particularly exposure to O3.

Among the 151,105 people with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in Ontario in 2020, we observed 8,630 hospital admissions, 1,912 ICU admissions and 2,137 deaths related to COVID-19. For each interquartile range increase in exposure to PM2.5, we estimated odds ratios of 1.06, 1.09 and 1.00  for hospital admission, ICU admission and death, respectively.

Preprint: Association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and COVID-19 severity: a prospective cohort study

I did not expect O3 [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone would be that bad. Parts per Million-"fine dust" would have to do damage...

-[url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/monkeypox-currently-circulating-around-is-unlike-former-strains-and-contains-new-mutations-despite-some-garbage-western-experts-claiming-that-they-are[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/monkeypox-currently-circulating-around-is-unlike-former-strains-and-contains-new-mutations-despite-some-garbage-western-experts-claiming-that-they-are not! DJ-From my non-expert view;

-When an old disease (like monkeypox, hepatitis) starts behaving "different" during a pandemic it most likely will be related to the pandemic...

-Maybe up to 1-in-8 people did get CoViD-infection...close to a billion cases...that will work out on how other diseases/immunity behaves...

-TMN has a link to Malaysia-increase of [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand,_foot,_and_mouth_disease[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand,_foot,_and_mouth_disease caused by an [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterovirus[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterovirus ...

-So far experts often were surprised by developments....Even the most experienced immonologists, virologists etc. are now facing a spread of disease never seen before in human history !

-Most CoViD-cases most likele will (still) be in humans....but from deer to mice, rats it may be spreading in non-human hosts...

DJ, [url]https://bnonews.com/monkeypox/[/url] or https://bnonews.com/monkeypox/ now including suspected cases from Bolivia, Sudan....[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_monkeypox_outbreak#Multi-country_outbreak[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_monkeypox_outbreak#Multi-country_outbreak also now mentions cases in children, women...

"Media" going for a "mild gay disease" are not helping. Yes part of the spread may have been at (maybe unwise) gay-parties....but again-there is NO gay-virus ! If it is "mild" -very welcome to see limited damage, better still not get it...but it may be much to early to claim "it is mild" !

And why ignore the CoViD-pandemic background ???

[url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/hepatitis/preprint-a-possible-explanation-to-hepatitis-of-unknown-cause/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/health/hepatitis/preprint-a-possible-explanation-to-hepatitis-of-unknown-cause/

“Our preliminary results raised a possibility that infection by SARS-CoV-2 ORF1abVVVNASN variant might elicit an autoimmune T cell response via epitope mimicry and is associated with the outbreak of unknown hepatitis. We anticipated that these findings will alert the human societies to pay more attention to rare mutations beyond the spike proteins.”

Preprint: SARS-CoV-2 ORF1abA1061S potentiate autoreactive T cell responses via epitope mimicry: an explanation to hepatitis of unknown cause

DJ, A new form of (CoViD) denial is "an often NOT even detected "new" adeno-virus would cause hepatitis" when investigation is NOT looking for CoViD..."because it does not fit in with CoViD symptoms"....

Some twitter-problems...(I have to find a way-maybe indirect-to copy twitter news-without ruining this forum). 

Another coffee-stay safe !

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein
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