Massachusetts officials confirm first human case of monkeypox – just as CDC issues warning that it is monitoring outbreak across Europe
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Health officials in Massachusetts have detected a monkeypox infection in a man who has recently returned from Canada.
Its Department of Health said the individual was hospitalized, but in a ‘good condition’. They are now tracing his close contacts.
It is the first confirmed infection with the virus in the U.S. this year, and comes a day after CDC officials said they were monitoring six potential cases.
These individuals sat within three rows of an infected patient on a flight from Nigeria to the UK on May 4, but the risk that they caught the virus remains ‘low’.
There appears to be no connection between these individuals and the case reported in Massachusetts. It is not clear how the man became infected.
There is a growing outbreak of monkeypox worldwide, with experts fearing the current case count could be just the tip of the iceberg.
There are 14 confirmed cases so far in Europe across the UK, Spain and Portugal. At least 24 people are also being probed for an infection.
The virus is more common in central and west Africa, where transmission generally results from direct contact with infected animals such as squirrels.
But the virus can also be spread via direct contact with infectious lesions in the skin, or from the coughs and sneezes of someone with a monkeypox rash.
Up to one in 10 cases are fatal, but the strain spreading globally is milder and thought to have a fatality rate of about one in 100 — similar to Covid’s at the start of the pandemic.
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From the article:
“A number of cases have been detected among gay and bisexual men, with it likely passing on through contact with infectious skin lesions. ”
So the >3% of the male population with deviant sexual practices is at ground zero.
Here are some READER’S COMMENTS on this from ZeroHedge:
Too many monkeys running around in the UK?
I suppose they already have a universal mRNA monkey pox vaccine invented and patented.
Monkeypox likely flown in from Nigeria. Much like AIDS possibly, probably even, jumping from simians to humans, now we’ve got monkeypox. If those 2 examples are not an argument for apartheid, then throw in Ebola.
By the way, given the optics and provenance, I’ll bet the term monkeypox will officially be changed to beautiful-fortifying-helpful-pox in a week or so.
Or rename it human pox as the other was too offensive to monkeys.
If they go that route I’m pretty sure they’ll use the term …
… White-Supremacist-pox-Which-Came-Completely-From-the-White-Man-and-Has-Nothing-to-do-with-African-Blacks-Flooding-Europe … pox.
Kamela must have stopped there on her trip to Poland. The entire country is doomed.
Presumably Neil Ferguson, the British regime’s top go-to academic (consistently the most wildly wrong in all of science), will be rolled out on the BBC loudly predicting 68,548,221 deaths in the UK by Christmas.
Multiculturalism doesn’t just bring spicy food restaurants then. It brings strange parasites and diseases the NHS has never seen before, which it is happy to cure at an extortionate cost.
Gain-Of-Function labs?
Or for the planned famine?
CDC=Comrade Kommissar Fraudci and CCP.