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In virology there are few standards for naming so you get some crazy or creative names!
Every virologist dreams of convincing the FDA/CBER to approve their diagnostic tests to screen the blood supply! Until COVID, this was the most profitable diagnostic testing scheme. In virology the big bucks come from diagnostic tests and/or vaccines and both require them to hype their virus.
So much money was splashed around during COVID some of them are looking for new avenues of income now that this one is drying up.
There is no proof the Congo variant is more lethal.
CFRs can change depending on how many cases are missed. Congo is less developed and more rural than Nigeria so milder cases are more likely missed.
Add onto this the people on Congo are afflicted with more diseases and suffer more malnutrition. A person dying with monkeypox is probably co-infected with a dozen other diseases.
Monkeypox is mild. Sorry to burst your fear mongering.
You sound foolish in your dismissal.
For starters, the report he read from said it was more lethal.
You certainly do nothing but speculate, and if what you said was true, Dr. Campbell (who is very thorough) would have said as much.
Telling the truth is not fear mongering, but let me guess, you believe in your own truth over facts like this brilliant individual;
Yes, in kindergarten. Not really comparable to falling ill as a working adult.
No one wants to get ill. But it’s part of reality. The question is if we should do anything to try and avoid getting ill? Obviously, highly subjective.
But if you’re worried about missing work, monkeypox is generally so mild you can go to work without issues. You’ll be itchy - annoying but not a showstopper.
It’s always been hard to tell fatality rates of viruses that exist in Africa. As we saw with Ebola, even pre vaccine the fatality rate was way lower here in the US than it was in Africa when the person actually got normal treatment or didn’t have other comorbidities.
I remember when it was in Dallas, the threads on here predicting end of days.
No one wants to get ill. But it’s part of reality. The question is if we should do anything to try and avoid getting ill? Obviously, highly subjective.
But if you’re worried about missing work, monkeypox is generally so mild you can go to work without issues. You’ll be itchy - annoying but not a showstopper.
It’s been circulating now for a good 12 weeks. If it was really bad we’d know by now. Covid by the 12 week mark was a disaster already. This variant seems to probably transmit better through sex than prior monkeypox strains did but it still seems to be strictly through large droplets and extremely close contact otherwise or there’d be insane case counts by now
It’s been circulating now for a good 12 weeks. If it was really bad we’d know by now. Covid by the 12 week mark was a disaster already. This variant seems to probably transmit better through sex than prior monkeypox strains did but it still seems to be strictly through large droplets and extremely close contact otherwise or there’d be insane case counts by now
It’s actually been circulating since 2018. Which explains why cases exponentially exploded since the media began shining a spotlight on it. It just was small stuff 2018-2020 and in 2020-2022 people were so focused on COVID no one paid attention to this, so it exploded.
Now money is drying up for COVID so they’re searching for scraps.
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