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"The magnitude of this outbreak poses a real risk," Dr. Kluge said. "The longer the virus circulates, the more it will extend its reach, and the stronger the disease's foothold will get in nonendemic countries." Monkeypox is a viral infection endemic in West Africa, but it has now spread to 39 countries, including 32 that have no previous experience of it, the W.H.O. director, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told reporters on Tuesday. Countries outside Africa and Europe that have identified cases of monkeypox include Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel and the United States.
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Soooo, you would rather get sick, possibly maimed and maybe die than pay $15 for a vaccine? Yeah, really smart....
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yea - those words are EXACTLY what I said....
all I said, was can't wait to big phama profit off this...
you know - how they are conveniently rising costs for doses, and raking in BILLION dollar profit off covid 19...
Thats all that was said.
but no - making shit up as "fact" from a arm chair no body online - you should work for CNN - you'd be good at it.
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Big Pharma is no different to anyone else who profits off me. I hope they profit from this.
Just like the farmer profits from growing me food.
Just like the supermarket profits from giving me such a wide selection and making feeding myself easy.
Just like Slashdot profits by providing me a daily opportunity to laugh at people making stupid posts. (Thanks by the way).Now if you'll excuse me it's time for Reckitt Benckiser to profit. I have a sore through and their soothing lozenges work a treat.
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Just be careful about who you're raw dogging. The primary way monkey pox is spreading is through sex
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The primary way monkey pox is spreading is through sex
Then why is this story on Slashdot? How is it "News for Nerds?"
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Speak for yourself! I had sex once!
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Sometimes the right hand doesn't know what the left hand's been doing?
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So I can get monkey pox by watching streamer doing yoga in a swimming pool on twitch?
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I think not fucking monkeys is a good advice in general, regardless of possible STDs you could catch.
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Ayup - instead of calling it Monkeypox which is an insult to monkeys, the WHO should rename it to Gaypox.
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So, we can have the freedom of abortion on demand in all 50 states? Kids can have the freedom to be shot in their schools because idiots like you have flooded the U.S. with guns? Freedom to die from pollution caused by those nice freedom loving companies who just want to make a profit, health be damned? Freedom to die penniless in old age because SS went bye-bye on the altar of freedom? Freedom to die of new infectious diseases because pharma won't get paid to vaccinate enough to keep the diseases at bay?
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This was the title of the article I read: Montreal offers monkeypox vaccination to all men who have sex with men
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"I'm not gay, but a vaccine is a vaccine."
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Drop your pants and bend over!
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Since the transmission is clearly by men who have sex with men, it's clear it's by definition an STD spread in the gay community
No. It's literally spread like any other pox disease, via contact with someone infected with the virus. [cdc.gov] Literally any person having sex would pass it as that's literally coming into contact with body fluid. But it can also be with just the pox itself on the skin.
The homosexual part come from the fact that there is a spread event going on in a group of homosexuals that comprise the majority of the number in Europe and America [cnbc.com] (because for Slashdot, those are the only people on the planet to exist). It is the majority of cases in those areas because this disease IS NOT FUCKING SPREADING LIKE A WILD FIRE. IT COULD BE. BUT WE ARE NOT AT THAT LEVEL.
While the virus itself is not a sexually transmitted infection, which are generally spread through semen and vaginal fluids, the most recent surge in cases appears to have been spread among men who have sex with other men, WHO officials said, emphasizing that anyone can contract monkeypox.
So there are just a handful of cases in most first world nations and this one group who have been fucking around, are the majority of those people. And yes, they all fucked each other which means that they have come into contact with each other's body fluids.
But it is not a STD "by definition" because THAT'S NOT WHAT THOSE FUCKING WORDS MEAN! And I am done with people coming up with their fucking definition of already understood words.
Good grief, I thought we were done with idiots on Slashdot spouting non-sense. Clearly we are not.
Focus the attention there instead of trying to misdirect the severity for political and budget reasons
BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE FUCKING DOING!! Why are you letting main stream media scare you?! Go find out what the WHO is actually doing. They are telling people that "this could get out of hand" because... well we just had an example of shit not being contained and everyone treating it like a nothing burger. But right now, the majority effort in first world nations is exactly what you just said. But that said, that does not make it a fucking STD. And it may feel like I'm splitting hairs, because after the last bullshit we went through, YEAH, we're going to have to fucking split hairs apparently.
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Dude, STDs are not even spread exclusively through sex. Wrestlers have gotten herpes from each other, people have gotten HIV from blood contact. The cases of monkeypox have been spread predominantly by gay dudes fucking each other, including at two European orgies. The fact that you can also catch it by touching someone's crusty poustules in a non-sexual context is almost beyond the point.
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Are you kidding? They have gotten far worse the past 3 years.
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That's what HIV was like at first, isn't it? Don't delude yourself into thinking it will confine itself to one community.
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That would make as much sense as only focusing Legionnaires' disease control efforts on Legionnaires. Although the disease was named after them due to the pathogen being discovered at a meeting, a previous outbreak occurred at a hospital and was only identified later from preserved specimens. Since then many outbreaks have occured [wikipedia.org], the largest being at a hospital in Spain.
Since there's not only no stigma but in fact honor associated with being a Legionnaire, the name has stuck without controversy despite
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You should *really* look up the definition of an STD. Hint: catching flu from your sexual partner during sex doesn't make flu an STD.
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Yeah it's weird how they focus on actual diseases even though that's their job.
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Gun fetish sounds like a disease
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Mental health problems are in their remit but it's clear that it doesn't mean they have the potential to resolve all mental health problems. So, not arming whackjobs with AR15s seems to be a better solution. Just like abstention rings don't really work against teenage pregnancies and STDs, unlike condoms.
Meanwhile it's still OK to advocate against screwing around a lot, or helping teenagers in a suicidal murderous crisis.
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So, judging by the comments, Slashdotters get their medical information from fantasies that are poor knockoffs of 1984. Everything is a conspiracy.
We've lived in a pandemic free world for so long that any disease that breaks through must be some conspiracy, and nothing to do with the fact that biology is complex and never 100% one way or the other.-
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Yeah, no one would have noticed they couldn't have elective surgery in 2020 because the ICU had filled and overflowed into the rest of the hospital!
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The hospitals literally overflowing ever damn Fall. The Bakersfield doctors said that in March of 2020 and were censored. Most hospitals in the UK were empty. Everyone under 40 who died on a ventilator would be alive today if they were put on a regular CPAP machine instead of a ventilator.
More people died of the secondary effects than COVID:
https://battlepenguin.com/poli... [battlepenguin.com]
More people have died of the drugs than COVID:
https://battlepenguin.com/poli... [battlepenguin.com]
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Judging by your downvote at least on GOP white trash eighth grade dropout schizo is offended.
I wear my downvotes from such gasworthy dimwits like the badge of honor they are.
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Well, the problem is you share a country with them and they do not understand how stupid they are.
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The problem is that we all share a planet with a spectacular number of gleefully undereducated DKs. They know they don't know, they are happy not to know, and in fact they think they're not missing anything by not knowing because they know so very little.
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Take off your mask... your hyper ventilating... im sure you'll be safe in your mom's basement
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Those right wing snowflakes won't survive global warming.
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I, for one, welcome our CIA shill overlords?
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Indeed. This will not be the last pandemic, we had quiet on the front for too long. Also, Covid is far from over. Get vaccinated, and when the Omicron stuff comes out, get it. Vaccines are safer than ever. Not 100%, they cannot be, but a _lot_ better than getting the actual "natural" vaccination and some real health damage to go with it with pretty high probability. For example, one of the people I work for is an entusiast cyclist, she had a "mild" case before a vaccine was available and she _still_ is not back to her old performance.
These morons just have found out they can scream "conspiracy" now, when they have no arguments and no actual understanding of the subject matter.
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Apparently antibiotic resistance is already killing millions of people. Our modern disease free utopia is already failing.
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Yeah, thanks to capitalists who fed daily doses of antibiotics to cattle so they would grow 10% faster. Those people should be hung to lampposts. Seriously, it slowly built antibioresistance there that is now spreading and all types of antibiotics now have severe forms of resistance if you are unlucky to get the wrong strain. Reminder: before antibiotics, one skin infection out of 9 led to death. Think about that next time you have a splinter.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer... [washingtonexaminer.com]
https://www.breitbart.com/poli... [breitbart.com]
“Sadly, the virus itself, particularly the variant called omicron, is a type of vaccine, that is, it creates both B-cell and T-cell immunity, and it’s done a better job getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines,” he lamented.
Gates noted that surveys in Africa show that up to 80 percent of people have either been vaccinated or have been infected with one of the variants.
“That means the chance of sev
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Such a fucking stupid thing to say, and not a clever thing to quote either. The vaccine can't give you Covid. That's why Omicron is not "a type of vaccine" by any definition. It might be described as a relatively safe way to develop immunity, if you didn't have the vaccines to compare to, and you had to compare only to prior strains. But since you do, getting Omicron is a shitty way to immunize.
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Moreover, properly controlled studies that look at the virus itself, taking as many factors as possible into account, show that Omicron is just as nasty as Delta in terms of what it will do to a naive subject. The only reason we're seeing fewer deaths is that the population as a whole has shifted with regard to susceptibility due to immunization and previous infections.
COVID-19 is not a disease you want to get, period. Even if you don't die or end up in the hospital, the chances are pretty high that you'll
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Sure, it’s just a coincidence that monkey pox is another NIH sponsored disease in the Wuhan Lab.
https://youtu.be/4E6cD-VWhQY [youtu.be]-
So what you're saying is we should never study diseases.
If we pretend that they don't exist, and don't try to understand how they work, then they won't attack us.
Never mind the fact that monkeypox did not emerge in Wuhan, and it's hard to see how any disease could come out of China now, given its harsh lockdowns that dickheads like you also criticize.
So why is COVID-19 coming from Wuhan such a significant coincidence that proves China and the NIH is behind it, but monkeypox not emerging anywhere ne
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Not sticking your stick in random strangers at festivals seems to be a good preventive measure for now.
Still waiting for Bill Gates' new snake oil to rub on my stick.
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Bill Gates, you say? Why? Did they manage to find a cure on child rape island?
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Bullshit. You seem to have zero understanding of the matter at hand. This thing is not airborne.
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We gave up our rights when we allowed the COVID fiasco. When we allowed our rights to be subverted for the 'greater good'. That complacency has created a precedence that will be applied to every situation possible.
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Is it really much of a danger if you, say, don't frequent BDSM gay raves?
https://www.nbcnews.com/health... [nbcnews.com]
Yeah, that was the primary spreading event in Europe.
Funny how that doesn't get a lot of coverage. I wonder why?-
not so fast.. there is a suspicion it spreads through the air bro.
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Bah! That's what they said about progressivism. Don't get too worried.
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Because it's not actually relevant to how the disease spreads?
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It has been covered and indeed gay sex doesn't increase risk more than hetero sex according to science.
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"Next week..."
Glad they don't run the fire or police departments.
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Enough is enough. If well all die so be it. There is no point in living in constant fear of what might be...
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is the ukraine conflict becoming boring?
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This one, unlike COVID, is relatively easy to avoid. Since transmission requires direct contact with bodily fluids, sores and things of that nature - just don't touch other people, at least for now. It may not be very fun, but it's not difficult.
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Yes easy to avoid but spreading. Conclusion: we are not better at avoiding pandemic after covid, that's the funny part of the story. So next airborne disease will spread as much as covid.
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> Monkeypox virus can spread when a person comes into contact with the virus from an infected animal, infected person, or materials contaminated with the virus. The virus can also cross the placenta from the mother to her fetus. Monkeypox virus may spread from animals to people through the bite or scratch of an infected animal, by handling wild game, or through the use of products made from infected animals. The virus may also spread through direct contact with body fluids or sores on an infected person
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Only great apes are in danger, not monkeys.
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