The Disease Formerly Known as Monkeypox (Now Mpox)

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The US is out here setting records again:

US sees largest monkeypox spike of any country: 3 updates

The U.S. saw the largest weekly spike in monkeypox cases of any other country in the last week of July, the World Health Organization said in an Aug. 3 report on the outbreak.
www.beckershospitalreview.com www.beckershospitalreview.com

Moderna is also looking into creating an mRNA vaccine for Monkeypox, which if successful, would be another big win for the for mRNA tech:
abcnews.go.com

Moderna considering creating an mRNA monkeypox vaccine amid growing demand for shots

Discussions remain pre-clinical, and no decision on whether the company will move forward with the creation of such a vaccine has been made, executives said.
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Confirmed cases are now over 10,000 in the US.

www.beckershospitalreview.com

US monkeypox cases top 10K amid concerns with new vaccine strategy: 4 updates

The manufacturer of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine, Bavarian Nordic, voiced concerns to federal health officials about efforts to expand vaccine supplies by allowing the administration of fractional doses, The Washington Post reported Aug. 10.
www.beckershospitalreview.com www.beckershospitalreview.com

In addition, it looks like some patients are having incredibly painful symptoms that are so severe they need hospitalization. There's also this:
Some patients develop urethral lesions, making it painful every time they urinate, as well as severe rectal pain and bleeding
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GIF by Zack Kantor


And apparently, we also need to be told not to attack non-human primates over this. This should be obvious, though because after we publically killed a gorilla in 2016 the world went to hell.
 
Joey D
Confirmed cases are now over 10,000 in the US.

www.beckershospitalreview.com

US monkeypox cases top 10K amid concerns with new vaccine strategy: 4 updates

The manufacturer of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine, Bavarian Nordic, voiced concerns to federal health officials about efforts to expand vaccine supplies by allowing the administration of fractional doses, The Washington Post reported Aug. 10.
www.beckershospitalreview.com www.beckershospitalreview.com

In addition, it looks like some patients are having incredibly painful symptoms that are so severe they need hospitalization. There's also this:


GIF by Zack Kantor


And apparently, we also need to be told not to attack non-human primates over this. This should be obvious, though because after we publically killed a gorilla in 2016 the world went to hell.
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RIP Harambe
 
We're now seeing asymptomatic cases of monkeypox:
www.nytimes.com

This Is Not the Monkeypox That Doctors Thought They Knew

The patients turning up at clinics often have a range of symptoms that are not typical of the infection. Some of the infected seem to have no symptoms at all.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

And incase you're not able to access the NYT through whatever means, you can view the study it references here:
 
This thread has caused me to look up the pox family of viruses and... there are a lot of them. I'd never heard of buffalopox before... or many of the others.
 
Touring Mars
Excuse me, but the politically correct term for this is Bpox.
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What would happen if there were 2 strains from different animals beginning with the same letter, such as koala and kangaroo...

You couldn't call them kpox and k2pox because that would sound like a mountain.
 
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sirjim73
What would happen if there were 2 strains from different animals beginning with the same letter, such as koala and kangaroo...

You couldn't call them kpox and k2pox because that would sound like a mountain.
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Mashabrumpox will be what was formerly kpox. K2pox will remain because no locals really saw it.
 

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