Can’t wait for us to try nothing to stop this and then be all out of options with a disease that has an up to 10% mortality rate in certain strains :covid-cool:
Good news: smallpox vax is ~85% effective against monkeypox, monkeypox tends to be less transmissible than other poxes
Bad news: young people tend to no longer be vaccinated for smallpox, human to human transmission of monkeypox is rare which means we are likely dealing with a new strain (of all cases in Britain, only one has recently been to west Africa but no other patients have or have been in contact with the patient who travelled)
the 10% mortality rate figure comes from the Congo strain of monkeypox and bear in mind that's in a country with one of the very worst healthcare systems in the world. this strain is almost certainly the west african one, which is more like 1% fatal (and the same caveat about healthcare infrastructure applies there too, so most regions will be better off still)
This is still v worrying and it's ridiculous how badly it's being downplayed by western media. The western response (or lack of one, rather) really has me appreciating china's covid response back in 2020 a lot more - imagine if they'd delayed the lockdown a few more days and allowed exponentially more infected people to seed it across the world, the spring 2020 wave would have been apocalyptic.
Yeah I’ve been thinking out that a lot lately. If China didn’t shut down fucking immediately the shit the world would have gone through with the first wave would have been apocalyptic
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