The Disease Formerly Known as Monkeypox (Now Mpox)

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The US is out here setting records again:

Moderna is also looking into creating an mRNA vaccine for Monkeypox, which if successful, would be another big win for the for mRNA tech:
 
Confirmed cases are now over 10,000 in the US.


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

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.
 
Confirmed cases are now over 10,000 in the US.


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.
RIP Harambe
 
We're now seeing asymptomatic cases of monkeypox:

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.
 
Excuse me, but the politically correct term for this is Bpox.
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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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.
Mashabrumpox will be what was formerly kpox. K2pox will remain because no locals really saw it.
 
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