Italy reports first case of monkeypox infection, two more suspected

Reuters ^ | 05/19/22

[BusterDog]

MILAN, May 19 (Reuters) - Italy has diagnosed its first case of the monkeypox infection at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome, the hospital said on Thursday, adding that the person, who arrived from a stay on the Canary Islands, was being kept in isolation.

The hospital added there were two other suspected cases that had yet to be confirmed.

[BusterDog]

Monkeypox in Roma est.

[cuban leaf]

This is like the Bird and Swine flu. i.e. I ignored them and they just sort of went away. I expected that to happen with covid, but our nanny state got involved in our private lives, and the rest is history.

That better not be the new normal.

[JD_UTDallas]

Spain has person to person spreading already. The canaries are a favorite holiday spot for Spaniards. This bug is already airborne the CDC and WHO are doing their best to tamp down that fact but as more and more not directly connected people to the original cases in the UK spring up they will have to acknowledge community spread and airborne vectors. Fortunately it looks like this is the West African clade with a 1% CFR not the Congo clade with 10 to 15% small victory.

[HighSierra5]

Is a desire for bananas a symptom?

[cuban leaf]

Interesting thing about monkeypox from the CDC:

“In Africa, monkeypox has been shown to cause death in as many as 1 in 10 persons who contract the disease.”

I’m guessing that in Africa, a lot of things that are considered a mild sickness in the western world, actually kills people there. Had they had 21st century western medicine, how many men would have actually died in the Civil War?

[SMARTY]

Italy gets a LOT of immigrants from Tunisia and elsewhere in Africa

[BenLurkin]

“Bananas” in the butt.

[brownsfan]

“That better not be the new normal.”

I think it is. Too many fellow citizens are incapable of doing anything other than what the government tells them. I am still a bit mystified at the residual covid panic. They’re still isolating, masking, and threatening people over a bad cold.

[cuban leaf]

The good news is that this is not as serious as smallpox.

[Vermont Lt]

This stuff does not transmit easily.

If you are not bathing in another person’s fluids, or literally “sucking face” the chances of transmission are pretty low.

This actually sounds like an HIV or Aids transmission path.

I think most of us are going to be OK on this one.

[God luvs America]

No but swinging in trees is

[Red Badger]

[bk1000]

“ I am still a bit mystified at the residual covid panic. ”

It has shown me that a great many people in this country, perhaps worldwide, live in absolute fear of the world. It is sad.

[Red Badger]

And don’t have sex with monkeys..............................

[HighSierra5]

Hey Hey we’re the Monkees!

[jacknhoo]

“I’m guessing that in Africa, a lot of things that are considered a mild sickness in the western world, actually kills people there.”

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In the United States, the majority of people who died with COVID could be alive today had our “western world” medicine not outlawed early treatment and preventative therapeutics.

[cuban leaf]

In the United States, the majority of people who died with COVID could be alive today had our “western world” medicine not outlawed early treatment and preventative therapeutics.

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Good point, and I absolutely agree. What explains the amazing death rate in NY in the beginning? I think it was the treatment.

They probably needed more leeches...

[Pollard]

Transmission of monkeypox virus occurs when a person comes into contact with the virus from an animal, human, or materials contaminated with the virus. The virus enters the body through broken skin (even if not visible), respiratory tract, or the mucous membranes (eyes, nose, or mouth). Animal-to-human transmission may occur by bite or scratch, bush meat preparation, direct contact with body fluids or lesion material, or indirect contact with lesion material, such as through contaminated bedding. Human-to-human transmission is thought to occur primarily through large respiratory droplets. Respiratory droplets generally cannot travel more than a few feet, so prolonged face-to-face contact is required. Other human-to-human methods of transmission include direct contact with body fluids or lesion material, and indirect contact with lesion material, such as through contaminated clothing or linens.

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/transmission.html

[Vermont Lt]

Do we REALLY need to say that aloud? LOL.

[Vermont Lt]

Diseases attack the weak.

In the case of Covid it was the elderly, the obese, and the overall “sickly” folks.

In the grand scheme of things, healthy people did not usually succumb to the disease. Of course there are exceptions—but this has been the case since the beginning of time.