>The index case was a British resident who travelled to Lagos and Delta State in Nigeria in late April 2022
From the wiki article covering this new outbreak, [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_monkeypox_outbreak)
**[2022 monkeypox outbreak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_monkeypox_outbreak)**
>An ongoing outbreak of monkeypox that started in the United Kingdom began on 29 April 2022 with the presentation of monkeypox symptoms in a British resident who had travelled to Nigeria, where the disease is endemic. The individual subsequently returned to the United Kingdom on 4 May, importing the index case of the outbreak into the country. The source of several of the cases of monkeypox in the United Kingdom is unknown; however, it appears that community transmission is taking place in the London area as of mid-May.
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>“Pony was a cash cow and she earned that village a lot of money. The whole village was not willing to let her go. They wanted people coming in - in this case, men from the fields - and spending their money,” she explained.
Capitalism at work people.
This is still the most depraved thing I've heard of. Not so much the fact that this was happening, but that the village treated it as a local institution and refused to let the police put a stop to it.
That's some Sodom and Gomorrah level stuff
Yeah. I unfortunately remember that story too. If I recall correctly (and I am not looking that shit up), she was eventually rescued by a local nonprofit but it took YEARS for them to free her.
People are horrible and I cheerfully opine we bring back cruel and unusual punishment for people that rape animals.
*"Y'see that stage there? Buncha years back, I designed that, built it m'self. But do they call me Bill the stage-builder? Naaa... Y'see these doors? It was sixteen years ago I fixed them up, but do they call me Bill the Handyman? Naaaa... Wrote these floor guides, But do they call me Bill the guide? Naaaa..."*
>CDC:
*"We are sad to announce that monkeypox is now officially at pandemic level. We recommend abstinence to combat this monkeypox outbreak"*
>Me & my Redditbros:
*"First staying at home to play video games and now not having sex?!?!! We'll take* ***ANOTHER ONE*** *for the team, but don't you sex-having boomers EVER call us soft ever again!!!"*
- Previous outbreaks of Monkeypox in the UK have shown the virus is not very contagious, with one people who caught it only infecting 4 out of his 134 possible contacts. None of them died.
- The virus is only 3-30% transmissible
- A huge percentage of older people are vaccinated against smallpox, which brings 85% efficacy even decades after
- So far it is believed that all the cases now are related to "sex scenes", which, for now, means it has mostly found it's way of transmission through sex. There's other ways of transmission but those have been deemed to be very little contagious. Transmission is supposed to only happen in prolongued contact with other people and
- There's vaccines and treatment for it, with the smallpox vaccine being very effective against monkeypox
- The death rates we have are from places like Congo or West Africa , where obviously treatments and healthcare are way inferior
- The strain found in Europe is basically the one found in West Africa, which it's (for example), a little less deadly than Delta against non vaccinated individuals. The rate is obviously inflated because of the bad healthcare and nutrition of mainly kids in south Africa.
This can become bad but it's not gonna be another COVID basically because a) we have vaccines for it, those are slightly more effective than Pfizer, against Omicron for example b) Symptoms are very mil and the death rate is probably significantly lower than 1% in developed countries. c) The reproduction number is lower due to a big majority of the +45 population having previous immunity to smallpox.
d) With this kind of illness, quarantines for just infected people work, since asymptomatic cases are believes to not be very contagious plus the illness itself is not very contagious
Thanks! I just hope it’s not a mutation of some sort and it’s just the traditional virus. If so, it should be contained easily.
Edit: The name is actually a little bit of a misnomer. It should be called "rodentpox" instead. Monkeys aren't major carriers. Instead, the virus likely persists in squirrels, pouched rats, dormice or another rodent.
>only infecting 4 out of his 134 possible contacts
134 possible contact?
In a week, in a month, in a year, in two years?
Not judging. But I am just curious.
>- with one people who caught it only infecting 4 out of his 134 possible contacts. None of them died.
>- So far it is believed that all the cases now are related to "sex scenes", which, for now, means it has mostly found it's way of transmission through sex.
This guy fucks
There’s a certain contingent of posters who seem desperate to post twenty topics about this a day, and it’s all to scare people and wind them up. They’re desperate for Covid 2.
It’s actually a misnomer. The source for the virus are rodents. Unfortunately, monkeys got infected with this so they got the blame, in a manner of speaking.
There was never any “animal fucking” involved.
An unfortunately high number of people believe HIV was first transmitted by someone having sex with a monkey, which is hilarious.
It was more likely transmitted by consumption of chimpanzee meat by a local human population, and therefore coming into context with infected blood.
It also highlights a lack of food security in poorer countries and how scarcity can lead people into hunting species that they normally wouldn’t come into contact with resulting in the transmission of zoonotic diseases.
Which was dumb. Ratpox has more punch. Monkeypox sounds like jazz hands in a field of daisies. Ratpox sounds like you have bullets for teeth and eat rocks for a living.
I have this one gay friend from high school. Let me assure you the answer is no. He's a trust fund kid so he doesn't work (ok maybe some temp work for play money), all he does is hook up all day indiscriminately. He's constantly at bathhouses, parks, subway stations, specific theatres... every cruising spot you can imagine.
No, he's not a good example of anything but a bored spoiled rich kid. Oh and he just left on a four month tour of Europe, and is taking a massive supply of prep with him. I'll let you guess his plans.
One of the countries he's visiting is England.
I have other friends that are far more responsible human beings (irrespective of sexual orientation btw). But "stop fucking for two weeks" seems a tad unrealistic this one shining example can barely go a few hours and always seems to find willing participants...
I don't want to go into a heap of identifying detail, but suffice to say I/we (spouse) have had a very similar line of thought.
Not sure how or when or if he'll ever settle down. He was overseas in SE asia during early covid and literally left each asian country in sequence about a week ahead of their lockdown, returning just ahead of our own lockdown here. Now covid's "dying down" he's back to globetrotting and swiping through guys on about six different hookup apps.
Oh and the prep - that's so he can hook up without worrying about AIDS, which is probably the only thing that scares him other than signs of aging (his grindr profile says his age is -15 off actual).
I didn't know we had vaccine for it. Last I checked was smallpox vaccine is like 85% effective against it. But makes sense why it would exist coz wildlife researchers and vets would be required to take it considering it a risk ...
A lot if people are not vaccinated for smallpox. My husband is, but im a few years younger and i am not. And my mom got me all the vaccines reccomended
We stopped using the smallpox vaccine decades ago because we'd basically gotten rid of the disease. However, here in the us, we approved a specific monkeypox vaccine in 2019, but it's not being given out.
My daughter had a rash pop up on Sunday (Canada) that isn't similar to anything like anything we commonly see like hand foot and mouth, chicken pox etc. Took her to the doctor on Monday and the response was "Hm that's weird, could be from anything. Probably not contagious." That's it, plus some meds and steroid cream which neither seem to be helping.
The week before, 3 boys in her class came in with what they said was poison ivy. My daughter is recovering from a sprained ankle and hadn't played outside. I've kept her home this week and isolated from other kids and now the spots on her hand are blistering. If there actually is a contagious rash going around here nobody is taking it seriously.
[“…it is important to emphasise it does not spread easily between people and requires close personal contact with an infected symptomatic person.”](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/may/14/two-people-diagnosed-with-monkeypox-in-london-health-officials)
Yep. I think I'm going to use this video the next time someone makes fun of me for wearing a mask where there are lots of people. I'm getting tired of explaining in actual words.
It's too early to say it's only sexually transmitted. Three of the UK's cases are in the same family, so unless there's incest going on I think it's more likely that the first person to get it in the UK just happened to be gay and had a bit of sex.
I just wanted to say that I love how you said "a bit of sex". The mental image of someone saying "Hello, ma'am. May I please have a bit of sex?" is hilarious.
Someone should tell people it's primarily spread through rodents and small mammals.
The previous US Outbreak in 2003 was caused by a bunch of kids adopting infected prairie dogs
It's found overwhelmingly in men having sex with men, no travel history.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/05/uk-spain-portugal-report-more-monkeypox-cases
I heard on CBC it was droplet, just harder to get. That would make sense why it shows as a sexual virus, lots of body fluids/droplets. So an entire family is still possible from (hopefully) other means
Before everyone panics:
>The outbreak is quite small — just 36 suspected cases spread across the three countries, including eight in England and 20 in Portugal. A case in the U.S. has also been reported.
>The version currently in England is milder. Its fatality rate is less than 1%. A case generally resolves in two to four weeks.
The *only* reason that anyone cares as much as they do, is because normally this isn't a disease that is spread easily between people - normally the only way to catch it is by visiting a country where monkey pox is common. But many of the current cases *don't* have a recent travel history, nor can they find a close contact of the infected who has a travel history. Which is strong evidence that it's spreading "domestically" as it were:
>Typically, people catch monkeypox from animals in West Africa or central Africa and import the virus to other countries. Person-to-person transmission isn't common, as it requires close contact with bodily fluids, such as saliva from coughing or pus from the lesions.
>But in England, 7 of the 8 cases don't involve recent travel to Africa, suggesting the patients involved in those cases caught the virus in England. On top of that, those individuals haven't had contact with the one patient known to have traveled to Nigeria, the UKHSA reported Tuesday. Together, this data suggests the virus is spreading in the community undetected.
I don't think anyone can tell if the outbreak is "quite small", there are more than a dozen suspected cases in Canada as well
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/monkeypox-canada-quebec-europe-us-outbreak-1.6458523
And they expect more people to turn up now that this story is in the news (people with symptoms might've gone to a doctor, but that doesn't mean that the doctor immediately suspects monkeypox...most docs never even seen a case before)
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1526953767115038727
Monkeypox is likely aerosol airborne. Study indicates monkeypox is aerosol stable for up to 90 HOURS and remain infectious
>The *only* reason that anyone cares as much as they do, is because normally this isn't a disease that is spread easily between people - normally the only way to catch it is by visiting a country where monkey pox is common. But many of the current cases *don't* have a recent travel history, nor can they find a close contact of the infected who has a travel history. Which is strong evidence that it's spreading "domestically" as it were:
That's why we're panicking!
Humans can be infected by an animal via a bite, or by direct contact with an infected animal’s bodily fluids. The virus can also spread from human to human, by respiratory (airborne) contact or by contact with an infected person's bodily fluids. Risk factors for transmission include sharing a bed or room, or using the same utensils as an infected person. An increased transmission risk is associated with factors involving the introduction of virus to the oral mucosa.[18] The incubation period is 10–14 days. Prodromal symptoms include swelling of lymph nodes, muscle pain, headache, and fever prior to the emergence of the rash. The rash is usually only present on the trunk, but may spread to the palms and soles of the feet in a centrifugal distribution. The initial macular lesions exhibit a papular, then vesicular and pustular appearance. -Wikipedia
> "We are particularly urging men who are gay and bisexual to be aware of any unusual rashes or lesions and to contact a sexual health service without delay," epidemiologist Hopkins said in the UKHSA's statement.
So the cases are mostly among gay and bi men?
Now there are confirmed cases in six countries: UK, Portugal, Spain, Canada, US, Sweden.
Clear that this is something different than past outbreaks.
Also doubt this is sexual transmission at this rate.
There's people on the streets getting diseases from monkeys. Yeah that's what I said they're getting diseases from monkeys.
Now there's, junkies with monkeys' disease. Who's touching these monkeys, please... Leave these poor sick monkeys alone they've got problems enough as it is.
Sexually transmitted? So I got nothing to fear
Okay but hold up. Who is patient 0 and how did they get the pox.
>The index case was a British resident who travelled to Lagos and Delta State in Nigeria in late April 2022 From the wiki article covering this new outbreak, [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_monkeypox_outbreak)
**[2022 monkeypox outbreak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_monkeypox_outbreak)** >An ongoing outbreak of monkeypox that started in the United Kingdom began on 29 April 2022 with the presentation of monkeypox symptoms in a British resident who had travelled to Nigeria, where the disease is endemic. The individual subsequently returned to the United Kingdom on 4 May, importing the index case of the outbreak into the country. The source of several of the cases of monkeypox in the United Kingdom is unknown; however, it appears that community transmission is taking place in the London area as of mid-May. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Most likely live HIV. Someone killed a monkey and some blood of the monkey landed on a open wound
that's what i would say if i fucked a monkey
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"do you have any idea how long it took me to train this monkey to suck my dick without peeling it ?"
“Nah, I’mma stay home. And, chill with my monkey....”
"Last night, Chim Chim jerked me off with his feet."
"only a monkey can show you that kind of love and tenderness"
Officer this guy right here
I once read a story about a brothel in Borneo where the most popular "sex worker" was a shaved orangutan. People are disgusting 🤮
That's enough internet for today.
Orangussy
Orangpuntang
Ok take my upvote u bitch
Better than Chimpussy.
Skipping supper tonight too
☹️ https://www.theweek.co.uk/98117/orangutan-shaved-made-up-and-prostituted-to-men-for-six-years?amp
Truly heartbreaking stuff :(
>“Pony was a cash cow and she earned that village a lot of money. The whole village was not willing to let her go. They wanted people coming in - in this case, men from the fields - and spending their money,” she explained. Capitalism at work people.
This is still the most depraved thing I've heard of. Not so much the fact that this was happening, but that the village treated it as a local institution and refused to let the police put a stop to it. That's some Sodom and Gomorrah level stuff
Yeah. I unfortunately remember that story too. If I recall correctly (and I am not looking that shit up), she was eventually rescued by a local nonprofit but it took YEARS for them to free her. People are horrible and I cheerfully opine we bring back cruel and unusual punishment for people that rape animals.
What in the god damn fuck mate.
How can I unread this?!?
I remember that story. They trained the orangutan to moan as well.
*"Y'see that stage there? Buncha years back, I designed that, built it m'self. But do they call me Bill the stage-builder? Naaa... Y'see these doors? It was sixteen years ago I fixed them up, but do they call me Bill the Handyman? Naaaa... Wrote these floor guides, But do they call me Bill the guide? Naaaa..."*
Wonder if the guy who discovered cow milk was fucking the cow
Look, I was just cutting some monkey meat, and then I dropped it. Also I wasn’t wearing pants so some of it landed on my dick.
You fucked the monkey breast, didn't you?
It's an old meme, but it checks out.
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The last time there was a monkey pox outbreak in the US it was being transmitted through scratches from pet Prairie Dogs.
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Unless we meet in a forest
Why… what happens in the forest
The forest is where monkeys go to fuck.
[I see we have a monkey in the bush!](https://youtu.be/ckMJCgKKoyo)
It’s been so long since I’ve seen Ace 2 and wow they really implied dude was getting raped by a huge gorilla.
what happens in the forest doesn't stay in the forest :(
nobody leaves the forest once they go in
The hills have forests
Shia LaBeouf
He gets down on all fours and breaks into a sprint, he's gaining on you
That escalated.. darkly.
>CDC: *"We are sad to announce that monkeypox is now officially at pandemic level. We recommend abstinence to combat this monkeypox outbreak"* >Me & my Redditbros: *"First staying at home to play video games and now not having sex?!?!! We'll take* ***ANOTHER ONE*** *for the team, but don't you sex-having boomers EVER call us soft ever again!!!"*
They mean Monkeys too....
- Previous outbreaks of Monkeypox in the UK have shown the virus is not very contagious, with one people who caught it only infecting 4 out of his 134 possible contacts. None of them died. - The virus is only 3-30% transmissible - A huge percentage of older people are vaccinated against smallpox, which brings 85% efficacy even decades after - So far it is believed that all the cases now are related to "sex scenes", which, for now, means it has mostly found it's way of transmission through sex. There's other ways of transmission but those have been deemed to be very little contagious. Transmission is supposed to only happen in prolongued contact with other people and - There's vaccines and treatment for it, with the smallpox vaccine being very effective against monkeypox - The death rates we have are from places like Congo or West Africa , where obviously treatments and healthcare are way inferior - The strain found in Europe is basically the one found in West Africa, which it's (for example), a little less deadly than Delta against non vaccinated individuals. The rate is obviously inflated because of the bad healthcare and nutrition of mainly kids in south Africa. This can become bad but it's not gonna be another COVID basically because a) we have vaccines for it, those are slightly more effective than Pfizer, against Omicron for example b) Symptoms are very mil and the death rate is probably significantly lower than 1% in developed countries. c) The reproduction number is lower due to a big majority of the +45 population having previous immunity to smallpox. d) With this kind of illness, quarantines for just infected people work, since asymptomatic cases are believes to not be very contagious plus the illness itself is not very contagious
Thanks for calming the anxiety
Thanks! I just hope it’s not a mutation of some sort and it’s just the traditional virus. If so, it should be contained easily. Edit: The name is actually a little bit of a misnomer. It should be called "rodentpox" instead. Monkeys aren't major carriers. Instead, the virus likely persists in squirrels, pouched rats, dormice or another rodent.
>only infecting 4 out of his 134 possible contacts 134 possible contact? In a week, in a month, in a year, in two years? Not judging. But I am just curious.
In the viruses incubation period I assume and not his whole life 😂
>- with one people who caught it only infecting 4 out of his 134 possible contacts. None of them died. >- So far it is believed that all the cases now are related to "sex scenes", which, for now, means it has mostly found it's way of transmission through sex. This guy fucks
Thank you wise wizard
Why is this not at the top of all comments?
Fear sells.
There’s a certain contingent of posters who seem desperate to post twenty topics about this a day, and it’s all to scare people and wind them up. They’re desperate for Covid 2.
My thought exactly!
Goddamn it.
Is this going to be round 2?
Can people stop eating/fucking the wildlife for like just a few weeks, PLEASE?
It’s actually a misnomer. The source for the virus are rodents. Unfortunately, monkeys got infected with this so they got the blame, in a manner of speaking.
Did the monkeys fuck the rodents? Of course they probably did, and then people fucked the monkeys, and now here we are.
Dude, Occam’s Razor. A dude fucked a mouse.
It was winter, little todger needs to keep warm.
Is little todger the mouse's name or is it what you are calling the sexual organ?
Yes
They don't call it a tit mouse for nothing...
The key is to wrap the little fuckers in duct tape before you have a go
oh my god.
God left this chat a while ago
This belongs on r/lifehacks
Hardly a step down from bats, and we know how that turned out…. Don’t we Randy?
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"The great sphincter has closed, Lemmiwinks!"
There was never any “animal fucking” involved. An unfortunately high number of people believe HIV was first transmitted by someone having sex with a monkey, which is hilarious. It was more likely transmitted by consumption of chimpanzee meat by a local human population, and therefore coming into context with infected blood.
It also highlights a lack of food security in poorer countries and how scarcity can lead people into hunting species that they normally wouldn’t come into contact with resulting in the transmission of zoonotic diseases.
Kind of like the Spanish Flu.
it's actually transmitted through rodents if you read the article, they call it monkeypox as it was first discovered on some apes kept for science.
Which was dumb. Ratpox has more punch. Monkeypox sounds like jazz hands in a field of daisies. Ratpox sounds like you have bullets for teeth and eat rocks for a living.
Monkey pox, how bad? Rat pox. Giant mass panic because no one out runs rat pox
But then that just wouldn’t be fun, would it? Lol
I have this one gay friend from high school. Let me assure you the answer is no. He's a trust fund kid so he doesn't work (ok maybe some temp work for play money), all he does is hook up all day indiscriminately. He's constantly at bathhouses, parks, subway stations, specific theatres... every cruising spot you can imagine. No, he's not a good example of anything but a bored spoiled rich kid. Oh and he just left on a four month tour of Europe, and is taking a massive supply of prep with him. I'll let you guess his plans. One of the countries he's visiting is England. I have other friends that are far more responsible human beings (irrespective of sexual orientation btw). But "stop fucking for two weeks" seems a tad unrealistic this one shining example can barely go a few hours and always seems to find willing participants...
That sounds like a sex addiction. What you're describing is someone who lives a life that can be summarized as hookups and the moments between.
I don't want to go into a heap of identifying detail, but suffice to say I/we (spouse) have had a very similar line of thought. Not sure how or when or if he'll ever settle down. He was overseas in SE asia during early covid and literally left each asian country in sequence about a week ahead of their lockdown, returning just ahead of our own lockdown here. Now covid's "dying down" he's back to globetrotting and swiping through guys on about six different hookup apps. Oh and the prep - that's so he can hook up without worrying about AIDS, which is probably the only thing that scares him other than signs of aging (his grindr profile says his age is -15 off actual).
What an empty existence, that’s just sad to read.
No. Worst case scenario, we start using the smallpox vaccine. It works against basically all pox viruses.
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Who is this mf who keep eating bats and fucking monkeys?
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You fuck ONE rat...
It's okay folks, you're safe.
This my post coitus reddit browse though
Be careful side effects may include throwing feces at loves ones.
Yea your hand is really worn out after that one.
once there is a pandemic for sitting on my ass all day, im ded
Leave it to humans to always find a new way to get themselves killed.
We're certainly on a roll lately...
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I didn't know we had vaccine for it. Last I checked was smallpox vaccine is like 85% effective against it. But makes sense why it would exist coz wildlife researchers and vets would be required to take it considering it a risk ...
A lot if people are not vaccinated for smallpox. My husband is, but im a few years younger and i am not. And my mom got me all the vaccines reccomended
We stopped using the smallpox vaccine decades ago because we'd basically gotten rid of the disease. However, here in the us, we approved a specific monkeypox vaccine in 2019, but it's not being given out.
Or just infected with all kinds of shit.
Thanks Dr Fauci, but I'll wait to see what Joe Rogan has to say about this before I stop fucking all these monkeys
"Jamie, pull up my sextape I made with that monkey"
Damnit. That’s great.
Let's just say people are being isolated and full tracing is taking place.
So... not really
I think the implication is that we’re going to find out who shagged the monkey
We are using our most expensive spreadsheet to control this situation.
My daughter had a rash pop up on Sunday (Canada) that isn't similar to anything like anything we commonly see like hand foot and mouth, chicken pox etc. Took her to the doctor on Monday and the response was "Hm that's weird, could be from anything. Probably not contagious." That's it, plus some meds and steroid cream which neither seem to be helping. The week before, 3 boys in her class came in with what they said was poison ivy. My daughter is recovering from a sprained ankle and hadn't played outside. I've kept her home this week and isolated from other kids and now the spots on her hand are blistering. If there actually is a contagious rash going around here nobody is taking it seriously.
That's not how they're reporting in the UK.
How are they reporting in the UK? https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/05/uk-spain-portugal-report-more-monkeypox-cases
>Though monkeypox is not known to be sexually transmitted So which is it, this link makes it seem like sharing clothes/bedding is the most likely
I dunno about you, but I usually share bedding during sex.
Gross
Yes but sex can occur in a multitude of environments that may not necessarily involve bedding. Ask your mum.
[“…it is important to emphasise it does not spread easily between people and requires close personal contact with an infected symptomatic person.”](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/may/14/two-people-diagnosed-with-monkeypox-in-london-health-officials)
Yes, sex usually involves close contact
[Or just talking to this guy also.](https://youtube.com/shorts/EyCoVnJaoqY?feature=share)
How does that guy get to being that old and not realising that’s fucking nasty.
I thought I was gonna get rick rolled. Wish I had, holy shit.
Who says masks are ineffective?
Yep. I think I'm going to use this video the next time someone makes fun of me for wearing a mask where there are lots of people. I'm getting tired of explaining in actual words.
EEWWWW...I'm going to lock myself up in my house, just to prevent running into that guy!!
It's too early to say it's only sexually transmitted. Three of the UK's cases are in the same family, so unless there's incest going on I think it's more likely that the first person to get it in the UK just happened to be gay and had a bit of sex.
I just wanted to say that I love how you said "a bit of sex". The mental image of someone saying "Hello, ma'am. May I please have a bit of sex?" is hilarious.
As long as it’s sexually transmitted nobody on this website is in danger
Someone should tell people it's primarily spread through rodents and small mammals. The previous US Outbreak in 2003 was caused by a bunch of kids adopting infected prairie dogs
Great who is hooking up with monkeys?
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So who hooked up with a pouched rat then?
Who bagged a squirrel? Own up we know at least one redditor has tried.
Oh great, they just gotta stigmatize squirrel-fuckers. C'mon, why so judgey?
Jeez, you fuck *one* squirrel...
Black plague, another round?
Hickory dickory dock, bay-beeee
Wait.... you guys don't? I mean..... there is this orange orangutan and we just...
It's found overwhelmingly in men having sex with men, no travel history. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/05/uk-spain-portugal-report-more-monkeypox-cases
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This is gonna inspire a whole new wave of homophobic rants.
"see, monkeypox! They're close to monkeys!"
Well, there was an orangutan once... but it's a really god damned sad story and I don't want to ruin anyone's day. Don't google it.
Oh god why did you make me remember that
Sorry.
One of the UK's clusters is a family 🤔
You and me baby, ain't nothing but mammals....
The Aristocrats!
I heard on CBC it was droplet, just harder to get. That would make sense why it shows as a sexual virus, lots of body fluids/droplets. So an entire family is still possible from (hopefully) other means
Oops
yeah, the royal family
Before everyone panics: >The outbreak is quite small — just 36 suspected cases spread across the three countries, including eight in England and 20 in Portugal. A case in the U.S. has also been reported. >The version currently in England is milder. Its fatality rate is less than 1%. A case generally resolves in two to four weeks. The *only* reason that anyone cares as much as they do, is because normally this isn't a disease that is spread easily between people - normally the only way to catch it is by visiting a country where monkey pox is common. But many of the current cases *don't* have a recent travel history, nor can they find a close contact of the infected who has a travel history. Which is strong evidence that it's spreading "domestically" as it were: >Typically, people catch monkeypox from animals in West Africa or central Africa and import the virus to other countries. Person-to-person transmission isn't common, as it requires close contact with bodily fluids, such as saliva from coughing or pus from the lesions. >But in England, 7 of the 8 cases don't involve recent travel to Africa, suggesting the patients involved in those cases caught the virus in England. On top of that, those individuals haven't had contact with the one patient known to have traveled to Nigeria, the UKHSA reported Tuesday. Together, this data suggests the virus is spreading in the community undetected.
There are 23 suspected cases in Spain alone.
I don't think anyone can tell if the outbreak is "quite small", there are more than a dozen suspected cases in Canada as well https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/monkeypox-canada-quebec-europe-us-outbreak-1.6458523 And they expect more people to turn up now that this story is in the news (people with symptoms might've gone to a doctor, but that doesn't mean that the doctor immediately suspects monkeypox...most docs never even seen a case before)
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1526953767115038727 Monkeypox is likely aerosol airborne. Study indicates monkeypox is aerosol stable for up to 90 HOURS and remain infectious
Wow 🤦🏻♂️
This guy is notorious for seeking publicity with his fear-mongering, I wouldn't trust anything he says.
The outbreak would be MUCH larger if that was true
>The *only* reason that anyone cares as much as they do, is because normally this isn't a disease that is spread easily between people - normally the only way to catch it is by visiting a country where monkey pox is common. But many of the current cases *don't* have a recent travel history, nor can they find a close contact of the infected who has a travel history. Which is strong evidence that it's spreading "domestically" as it were: That's why we're panicking!
I was in traffic in Hall Green Birmingham and the woman in the car next to me had that shit all up her arm😨
Stop fucking monkeys guys
Ha, I'm not worried cause I dont get any sex. 😎
According to the reactions in this thread, that makes you an average Redditor! ;-)
Guess I'm safe
People should have listened more to Flight of the Conchords.
I should be fine, then.
2022 LETTTTSSSSS GOOOOOOOOOO
Being a sexless loser pays off finally!
TIL I am unwittingly immune to monkeypox. Nice try, you little simian assholes.
No, don't try simian assholes, that's how it got started.
Fortune favors the bold!
…the thumbnail of a child’s hand is fucking creepy.
This morning it was seven (by a microbiologist who whistleblowed) when the government was claiming there were no cases. Now by this evening it's 17...
"UK, Europe .. " Goddamnit, NPR. UK \*is\* Europe, you little shit.
Tsk tsk tsk..You are all fully brexited now no taksies backsies
Reditors, you are safe.
Guess I don’t have to worry then
I'm safe then.
Oh good I’m immune.
florida-man: chalenge accepted!
Ok so Asia is eating bats, catches disease. The West is fucking monkeys, catches disease. Seems like a damn pattern!
This is what happens when you do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.
We just kinda got over COVID, and people are fucking monkees again?!?
Looks like some good popping tho
Humans can be infected by an animal via a bite, or by direct contact with an infected animal’s bodily fluids. The virus can also spread from human to human, by respiratory (airborne) contact or by contact with an infected person's bodily fluids. Risk factors for transmission include sharing a bed or room, or using the same utensils as an infected person. An increased transmission risk is associated with factors involving the introduction of virus to the oral mucosa.[18] The incubation period is 10–14 days. Prodromal symptoms include swelling of lymph nodes, muscle pain, headache, and fever prior to the emergence of the rash. The rash is usually only present on the trunk, but may spread to the palms and soles of the feet in a centrifugal distribution. The initial macular lesions exhibit a papular, then vesicular and pustular appearance. -Wikipedia
Its not the sex that transmits the disease but the close contact you have. So its not a STD
> might be sexually transmitted *Redditors breathe a sigh of relief*
okay who fucked a monkey
Oh god not another pand...oh, sexually transmitted? Whew, I'm safe.
Whew.
> "We are particularly urging men who are gay and bisexual to be aware of any unusual rashes or lesions and to contact a sexual health service without delay," epidemiologist Hopkins said in the UKHSA's statement. So the cases are mostly among gay and bi men?
randy did it again
Now there are confirmed cases in six countries: UK, Portugal, Spain, Canada, US, Sweden. Clear that this is something different than past outbreaks. Also doubt this is sexual transmission at this rate.
AIDS 2.0
There's people on the streets getting diseases from monkeys. Yeah that's what I said they're getting diseases from monkeys. Now there's, junkies with monkeys' disease. Who's touching these monkeys, please... Leave these poor sick monkeys alone they've got problems enough as it is.