idk if we have a general communicable viral disease thread that isn't covid related so I'll just tuck this in here
Monkey pox is a poorly transmissible pathogen human to human. If it were to get better we’d be looking at smallpox 2.0 and there would be a huge rush to vaccinate a largely unvaccinated population
I'm assuming tag Monkey pox doesn't have the mutating potential that a Coronavirus has? Or maybe I should just stay in my lane and ahut up & listen
It doesn’t. It’s a fairly stable DNA virus. Doesn’t mean it can’t or won’t happen. We are luckily fairly well prepared as a society to move quickly.
Maybe those cases have been mild. And it’s not as bad as smallpox. But it’s not good, either. Depending on clade, it’s a 1-10% case fatality rate. https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/monkeypox---the-united-states-of-america
One of my old infection Preventionists was the one who helped identify the cases in Wisconsin and Illinois in 2003. And he would remind us any chance he’d get.
yes. we could use what we used for smallpox (with a 1 in 1 million fatality rate), or we could use newer vaccines, one from Bavarian Nordic called MVA that was recently licensed.
What a shit show this would be coming off the coronavirus pandemic and the grifter network already in place