To ask if you are worried about monkeypox?

[WhenTheNightFalls]

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

Ah ok I moved to the middle East as a kid in the late seventies and got it there so it must have gone on a bit longer outside the UK.

It's the one that leaves a small circle on your arm isn't it?

that's the bcg (tuberculosis) vaccine.

Apparently there are two strains, the Congo strain which has a mortality rate of around 10% and the West African strain, which is the one in the UK, is around 1%.

Credit to Chise on Twitter for my new found monkeypox knowledge!

Am I worried? No.

Am I cautiously watching to see what happens? Yes.

In good news, even if we no longer use smallpox vaccinations, we at least know the formulation for a smallpox vaccination (which would work against monkey pox) ... and it's likely to be effective, given we managed to eradicate smallpox with it... so we're a step further along than we were with Covid.

Or is that BCG? Anyway, my vaccine card says I've had both smallpox and BC so I'm alright jack I guess.

Not worried about it in the slightest.

The first case in Germany has been confirmed by Schwabinger Krankenhaus in Munich.A 26 year old Brazilian man who arrived in Germany over a week ago travelling through Spain and Portugal .In the last week he has travelled to various cities in Germany but is now isolated in hospital . Sounds familiar somehow.

In good news, even if we no longer use smallpox vaccinations, we at least know the formulation for a smallpox vaccination (which would work against monkey pox) ... and it's likely to be effective, given we managed to eradicate smallpox with it... so we're a step further along than we were with Covid.

Yes and not only that but I believe its one of the type of vaccines that gives lifelong protection

No, I am not worried, but noted the government have now ordered lots of vaccines, so I am wondering if it is as 'contained' or will remain so as they say it is.....

That's BCG, it was done as an intradermal injection and then a pustule forms, resulting in a relatively symmetrical round scab. Smallpox vaccine also results in scarring, but it was given through multiple stabs by a bifurcated needle so the scar looks more like an oval with two ridges on the sides where the skin was punctured (don't know how to explain it better). At least for me.

A bit worried, yes. Also about the strange, very serious outbreak of hepatitis in children which resulted in a number of liver transplants and even a couple of deaths. It’s apparently peaked, but still a worry.

which has a mortality rate of around 10% and the West African strain, which is the one in the UK, is around 1%.

What does that sound like? Mortality at 1%....and look what happened. I think that is reasonably worrying if it becomes more infectious in younger groups.

I'm not worried just yet. That could change though if cases rise and its definitely being spread easily.

I work in one of the departments which has seen cases. We've all been issued with high grade PPE, it's all feeling horribly familiar

Not worried at all. It's been here for several years, barely bothering anybody. It's only on people's radar now because of our shitty media wanting to sensationalise everything to drive clicks.

I don't think so I'm 48 ,my Dad who is 80 has a small pox vaccine scar, I do have a scar but I think that was from Tb ,vaccine.

I’m slightly worried but more because from what I read it seems like it’s hard to spread between people and yet it seems to be spreading amongst people??

@WhenTheNightFalls monkey pox is a really mild virus. It’s not dangerous and it’s not easily spread between people. The media, as always, are fear mongering.

I heard a doctor, think it was on GMB, and she said the fatality rate was 1 in 10. I thought that was a bit high, maybe she misread her notes.

Google tells me they stopped routinely vaccinating for small pox in the UK in 1971 ,so I would have missed it as I wasn't born until 1973

Absolutely spot on.

No i'm not worried, I just want to enjoy life after everything with covid. Life's too short to spend it worrying and scared of something that may or may not happen. Live life to the fullest, every day.

I'm not worried about monkeypox. I'm terrified that there will be another raft of disruptive public measures that shut down our business again. The usual suspects on twitter are already banging that drum.

I'm already prepping. Got 20 bags of toilet roll this week.

I've had the TB and smallpox jabs and don't have a scar from either. Don't know why, all my friends definitely had the TB scar but I just got the scab and then it healed and was gone. I hope no scar doesn't mean they didn't work.

I had the small pox jab in the 60s as far as I remember, we had a local outbreak when someone who had been on the Haj developed it. I remember huge queues for the jab. I don't know if it would still be effective after all these years.