gay men and similar groups dealt with it before it really started spreading.
Vaccinations among high risk groups seem to have prevented it from spreading too much, but there was a recent cluster in Chicago, and it is still showing up in wastewater samples, so there might be more outbreaks in the future.
Vaccinations among high risk groups seem to have prevented it from spreading too much
huh who would've thought
Yeah, crazy right?
Some of the initial reports made it sound incredibly contagious on surfaces, and I'm glad that hasn't turned out to be the case. But I hope they are stocking up or have a way to quickly make vaccines if that changes for the worse.
Yeah biobot is monitoring for it, but apparently it's much less prevalent in wastewater than covid. So, not quite as useful.
I saw like two cases. I think it is actually not as as infectious as we had feared it could be.
Smallpox vaccine provides protection for other viruses in the same family. In fact the original smallpox inoculation programs started when scientists noticed that milk maids who tended to get cow-pox from cows pretty much never died from smallpox and had much milder cases of it than other people.
Yes, but its an 'old' vaccine (because there wasn't much funding/research put into it, because monkeypox was 'contained' in Africa, near where its endemic in the rodent population its native to).
The vaccine, which is actually just a smallpox vaccine, is a live virus vaccine, and therefore is genuinely somewhat risky. You will probably get moderately sick from getting it, and a few will get very sick from it.
As a result, its not a vaccine appropriate to give to everyone, but rather to do 'barrier' vaccination with. This includes 'high risk groups', but also, monkey pox is 'slow' enough you can get vaccinated after you think you've been exposed to it, just like with rabies and tetanus.
All of those reasons mean it is actually not that difficult to contain, provided actual resources are spent on tracking and maintaining the 'barrier vaccinations'.
it is still around, i know a nurse who told me awful shit about a patient who has it + untreated HIV
News cycle moved on. I hate that the explanation is likely that simple. Death to American media.
