To ask if you are worried about monkeypox?

[WhenTheNightFalls]

Can't help but feel a little anxious about it all. Aibu?

Presumably those fatality statistics are from Africa?

Fatalities in countries with terrible healthcare systems.

Stop scaremongering and get a grip.

No, I’m not worried about monkeypox, in the same way I didn’t worry about foot and mouth disease etc

Not at all.

Nah, I'd really rather not have the absolutely repulsive pustules associated with it but no, not worried

not worried (yet)

but certainly one to keep an eye on.

It actually has a mortality rate of ~10%.

The lowest of all observed in Africa (goes up to 10%).

I'm not worried like I was with COVID because it is harder to transmit and easier to spot, so the established medical opinion is that it is not pandemic material. But I think after what we've been through it is natural that some people will feel worried.

I read death rate is 1 in 10 and leans towards the young.

I have seen the NHS, my point stands

What I would like to know is why they are saying gay and bisexual men. If a man is bisexual surely any women he has sex with are also at risk of infection?

I'm not personally worried right now so long as it's really an STI - I don't think me or DP will be shagging anyone else any time soon. If it's transmitted in other ways - well, it looks absolutely god-awful, like chicken pox on speed, so wouldn't particularly want to have it. Let's hope it's a small outbreak.

I am more worried than I would have been pre covid but that's because of what has just happened. I can calm myself down quite easily over it.

Err no

This scaremongering shite needs to go.

Bet the scaremongerers on the covid topic are rubbing their hands with glee.

Get a fucking grip.

In general no and that the smallpox vaccine is effective to a large degree against it, is good (though ATM, only people over a certain age will have had the smallpox vaccine).
There are some worrying apsects though. It possibly has an infection rate of RO=2 (original Wuhan covid was about RO=1.5). If being spread by aerosol is worrying. The WHO are holding an emergency meeting, though im not too alrmed by that

Thankfully we already have an effective vaccine. Think someone further up the thread said the smallpox vaccine is 80% effective against monkeypox

Well, at the risk of sounding flippant, I don't think we'll be peering at LFT for this one, it will be blindingly apparent.

I think there's more twitchiness post Covid. Maybe it will spur research into whether those of us who had the smallpox vaccine have legacy immunity, which seems unclear.

Was reading about it this morning in the Times (sorry, can't do sharetokens) so no, not worried based on details given there.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/two-more-monkeypox-virus-cases-bring-uk-total-to-nine-2ct7qxrxr

This in particular:

"A key reason monkeypox has returned in Africa is because smallpox was eradicated. Anyone younger than middle-aged has not received the smallpox vaccine, and it now appears that makes them vulnerable to its cousin monkeypox."

Unlike Covid, this is not a new disease, and also unlike Covid there is already a long-established vaccine for it, the smallpox vaccine.

It also requires "prolonged skin-to-skin contact" whereas coronavirus was airborne and spread by coughing etc.

SO all told - no, not worried.

Smallpox had an awful skin reaction too and scarred people for life. It makes me wonder, if covid had the same skin symptoms, would we still see so many refusing the vaccine.

Exactly this. Me too.

This will happen now every time there is a small outbreak of an unusual disease. It's not a novel virus so nothing like covid.

Have me not all had the smallpox vaccine as kids?

And Sweden.

Routine smallpox vaccination ended in the UK in 1971
Smallpox was eradicated worldwide due to a huge global effort of vaccination. It was an incredible achievement

Why do they do this? Again.

To sell more newspapers? Because they need the 24 hour news to keep on rolling? They have a sinister agenda? To sell advertising revenue? It feels like they are not on the side of the people any more.

that stopped in 1975 ish

basically anyone under 50 is unlikely to be vaccinated against it.
bcg is based on a pox type vaccine but the call is still out if that has an effect.