Monkeypox virus

Sigma101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514342#Comment_122514342

No. The numbers are possibly based on recorded cases, which is a completely different thing to the "likelihood of contracting mpox". The likelihood of catching it is related to contact with other infected people, and not related to skin colour. The statistics have been deliberately misinterpreted to make some convoluted racist argument about black and white people being different.

SpoonyMcSpoon

Considering it needs actual physical contact to spread then those that want to hide can go off and hide. The media are absolutely loving the hysteria they are generating.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514382#Comment_122514382

It doesn't. That seemed to be the case with the original variant, but it appears the new variant can spread without physical contact, but by close contact.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gqr5lrpwxo

SuperBowserWorld

Not a hope in hell this will stop spreading. The government can't even catch a few green parrots in Dromcondra.

Atlantic Dawn

They could ban the wearing of t-shirts, shorts and dresses in public, along with 2.275 metre social distancing, that should sort it 🤣

dirk_dangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514337#Comment_122514337

So cast your mind back a few years and Money pox burst on the scene, we where told it is sexually transmitted, advice was abstain from sex for a month and it would be practically eradicated, for some reason case numbers continued to rise, almost exclusively among Gay men, Monkey pox was spreading at gay orgies that where way more common than anyone ever knew and then Children and Dogs in close proximity to gay men started to get Monkey Pox, nobody knows how they got it and then the media stopped talking about Monkey Pox, Crazy how it ended over night, just like Covid when Russia invaded Ukraine.

dirk_dangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514342#Comment_122514342

A bit like the super duper new killer strains of covid that came out every few weeks. 😉

silliussoddius

Someone make it stop.

dirk_dangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514397#Comment_122514397

As a straight man i'm not concerned

"affecting gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men", what type of woke BS is the category "Men who have sex with men"? Is that not covered by gay?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9264731/

Up to 22 June 2022, 508 confirmed cases of monkeypox (MPX) have been reported in the Madrid region of Spain, 99% are men (n = 503) with a median age of 35 years (range: 18–67). In this ongoing outbreak, 427 cases (84.1%) reported condomless sex or sex with multiple partners within the 21 days before onset of symptoms, who were predominantly men who have sex with men (MSM) (n = 397; 93%).

99% of cases where men, 93% confirmed gay and the other 6% in the closet😉

silliussoddius

Won’t the WEF make it go for whitey? Just asking questions.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514790#Comment_122514790

Newsflash. It is now August 2024. Come back to us when you have stats that are in our timeline.

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514790#Comment_122514790

This is more a case of you not understanding AI models. AI models are not up to the minute in terms of data much of the time. In this case, you've just cited two year old data.

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514306#Comment_122514306

I know people that ate white bread toilet roll sandwiches. They swore by it.

The world needs to get over the virus mania. I like trees and pints of Guinness. I am drunk.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514850#Comment_122514850

Hey, if it worked with the crypto bros.

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514965#Comment_122514965

Hey, that's exactly what you used to explain something to you...

susan678

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514756#Comment_122514756

I remember this poor dogs.

We don't need another panic with vaccines masks and hysteria being pushed.

fun loving criminal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514790#Comment_122514790

It's not a gay man's disease.

donaghs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122515394#Comment_122515394

Maybe it’s just more a case of how many partners you have per week, and how many your partner has also.
And how much intimacy goes on long terms relationships. Versus people looking to hookup

And the difference in dynamic between male-male and male-female. No major lesbian outbreak of mpox reported yet?

I can’t help think that the (on a spectrum) male desire to have sex at all costs is wreaking havoc with people’s lives again

Atlantic Dawn

Having to produce a negative test to enter the country like in the Covid era would throw the cat amongst the pigeons, lol.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119074836#Comment_119074836

some poor fella got nailed by a horny monkey?

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122515394#Comment_122515394

Let’s be 100% clear - this is NOT a disease confined to sexual contact - you can get it from simple close contact or bedding or utensils - it has an incubation period of up to 21 days - so you could be spreading it for that amount of time. Depending on the variant it has a death rate of between 1/100 and 1/1000.

“Messaging: In the previous outbreak across the world, a lot of communications that were going out were aimed at sex workers and men who have sex with men. As a result, people may have thought that this is only a sexually transmitted disease. It’s not.

Now women and children are getting the virus, so communities need to be told what symptoms to look for and what action to take.”

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41456425.html

fun loving criminal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122515673#Comment_122515673

Are you infectious during the incubation period? Because if that's the case, it will be hard to contain. Throw in potential airborne spread it will be even harder. Some say it's airborne, some say it's not. Clade 1 seems to be the strain that's going around now and that seems to affect children more, so schools opening up soon won't help either.

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122516036#Comment_122516036

yes that’s due to close contact - Claud 2 is the less harmful strain but it’s Claud 1 that’s seen an increase in 1000s of cases in multiple African countries throughout 2024 and it’s mutating as it spreads.
And yes you’re infectious throughout the incubation period - and you could also be asymptomatic - the sores often don’t appear until week 3 - up to then you could simply feel that you have a cold or flu or very little if any symptoms

aidanodr

With regard MPOX it looks like we are all good here so:

"Ireland has “sufficient” supplies of mpox vaccine to deal outbreaks of the disease in the State in the coming months, the infectious diseases watchdog has said, with the risk for the country being deemed as low by health officials."

https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2024/08/16/sufficient-supplies-of-mpox-vaccine-for-state-to-counter-risk-deemed-low-by-health-officials/

thereiver

I read mpox has been spreafing in Africa for years .my question is why has no action been taken by the UN or some other international body Did we learn nothing from the pandemic .To stop a virus the majority of the population had to be vaccinated .We spend billions on nuclear weapons it's going to cost billions maybe to stop the virus spreading to eu country s and around the world .The UN could have given out free vaccines to every person in Africa

IImagine If mpox was widespread in Scotland i.d say there would be a widespread vaccination program in the UK

Mpox could be more serious than COVID if it spreads around the world .

I understand many African are not well developed They have only the most basic health services in most countries which don't have the resources to produce vaccines and give them to most people

Some governments are corrupt and it's not simply a matter of giving them money or sending vaccines

Even in Ireland there are many people that never got vaccinated due to misinformation or conspiracy theories like COVID is just.a government conspiracy to gain more control of the population

It would require a international taskforce to go to Africa and setup medical program to give our vaccines to millions of people

This probably won't happen so the future is mpox will spread around the world to every country unless some borders are shutdown

1000s of African people travel to the eu every month as tourists or to find work

Will there be some type of screening program setup in UK Irish airports eg if you can't prove that you have been vaccinated for mpox you can't get off the plane

I know the eu only has about 200k mpox vaccines right now

Meanwhile COVID is still spreading most people have stopped wearing masks people in concerts are getting COVID

2 people in the eu have already got Mpox

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Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122516278#Comment_122516278

Yeah let’s not over exaggerate the threat- but it’s still a horrible and in some cases lethal disease - I wonder if restrictions and isolation procedures will kick in coming from African countries? Its certainly a possibility if anyone is planning a trip there - now is the time to do it to try and hit this on the head

Redacted Circular

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514756#Comment_122514756

Monkeypox never went away. The media stopped reporting on it once the public began to nootice certain things.

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122516711#Comment_122516711

It will disappear again as soon as the Dail returns. Probably sooner. It's a non story. We love a good virus these days. Measles was another one recently.

thereiver

maybe there could be some screening at airports in africa ,eg you cannot buy a plane ticket to a eu country unless you have proof of mpox vaccination ,like you need a passport to get on a plane to travel to the eu in theory. Or is this too much to expect, theres very little coverage of covid 19 in the media at the moment as the media do not find it interesting

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122517799#Comment_122517799

I dont think theres enough vaccines to cover that. They are being kept in reserve for breakout areas. Open to correction but I dont think theres any large scale preventative programmes from what Ive read.