Monkeypox in the U.S.
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Learn more about monkeypox in the United States.

On june 28th, 45 days ago, that number was 244.

Last friday it was ~7,500, and today its ~11,200

taking all bets, who's got a timeline of how this goes from here?

  • justjoshint [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    so do yall have a reliable source about transmission cause seems like everyone says different shit

    i still wear my mask whenever i go out and i dont have any physical contact outside of like 3 friends but idk whats going on

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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      2 years ago

      same, its february 2020 all over again. I've heard it can survive on surfaces and fabric for a long ass time, so I'm just watching what I touch, washing hands and sanitizing, and wearing a mask, as well as generally minimizing contact with people as much as possible (which is still WAY too much but its that or get fired and be homeless soooo)

      • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yup the info is a jumbled again. I do know staying covered with clothes is a solid preventive measure. I don't know if the person who doesn't have it has to have any open wounds or anything like that in order to catch it but for now it's probably best to limit all direct contact with strangers. I'm not completely sure about the airborne part either but I have definitely seen many people confirming it can live on surfaces for around 14 days which is scary as hell

        • sappho [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          It can live on surfaces for far more than 14 days. Saying ”14 days" is so laughably short it qualifies as misinformation - I don't know where that got started. Orthopoxviruses can live on surfaces for months to years. The last study I saw had poxvirus in an envelope just chilling at various random temperatures with basically hardly any loss of viability at 13 years, when they stopped the study. You can't deactivate it with time, sunlight, or soaps.

          • comi [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Sunlight can deactivate any virus over long enough time, so heavy doubts

    • Soap_Owl [any]
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      2 years ago

      It is probably the same as chicken pox. The virii is easily spread by touching someone's rash. Also, if you get coughed on. So social diatancing and wearing a mask is probably perfectly effective.

        • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-07/22_0712_st_monkeypox_mql.pdf

          Transmissibility on Page 4 & 7

        • Soap_Owl [any]
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          2 years ago

          Textbook. However these kinds of virii are not new.

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

          The smallpox virus is a close cousin to the monkey virus. So sharing blankets is more of a concern than it would be for chicken pox. But that is largely just spreading pus or respiratory droplets via a seccondary source. I think at this point in the situation with modern hygene that kidna vector based transmission isn't a huge concern. If things get wild it might become so. That would just mean wearing gloves ontop of masks and social distancing.