As an armchair epidemiologist, virologist, vaccinologist, and immunologist (sure, why not? I can't do worse), I will wager the safe and effective serum is the culprit. I'm no expert but I play one on Substack.
I'm thinking of writing a piece on the monkeypox situation, just mostly looking at a paper everyone tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It does appear this may be zoonotic in nature- at least for the time being. There are questions being raised as to whether monkeypox may have been endemic for some time and we have not noticed it. Maybe our current situation is making itself more pronounced, or it could be an incident of mass exposure like these rave and sex parties.
I would like to know the level of anti-monkeypox antibodies among endemic countries. It could be that we are in such a precarious state, and that we have not necessarily been exposed to monkeypox in the West, that is making us more susceptible.
Aha — I can put my little spreadsheet away — hadn’t realized Our World in Data was tracking this — of course.
That this is happening now as opposed to an everpresent leakage from endemic countries is an incredibly good question. Just that question needs to be asked repeatedly, out loud and widely. Why are we talking only about a previous outbreak as far back as 2003? What is different now that apparently hasn’t happened in the past ~20 years since? Keep an eye out for prairie dogs — thats what triggered 2003 — must be them again!
WHO count updated yesterday — over 1000 now. Somebody REALLY needs to get a hold of the inoculation status of those cases.
As an armchair epidemiologist, virologist, vaccinologist, and immunologist (sure, why not? I can't do worse), I will wager the safe and effective serum is the culprit. I'm no expert but I play one on Substack.
I'm thinking of writing a piece on the monkeypox situation, just mostly looking at a paper everyone tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It does appear this may be zoonotic in nature- at least for the time being. There are questions being raised as to whether monkeypox may have been endemic for some time and we have not noticed it. Maybe our current situation is making itself more pronounced, or it could be an incident of mass exposure like these rave and sex parties.
I would like to know the level of anti-monkeypox antibodies among endemic countries. It could be that we are in such a precarious state, and that we have not necessarily been exposed to monkeypox in the West, that is making us more susceptible.
Aha — I can put my little spreadsheet away — hadn’t realized Our World in Data was tracking this — of course.
That this is happening now as opposed to an everpresent leakage from endemic countries is an incredibly good question. Just that question needs to be asked repeatedly, out loud and widely. Why are we talking only about a previous outbreak as far back as 2003? What is different now that apparently hasn’t happened in the past ~20 years since? Keep an eye out for prairie dogs — thats what triggered 2003 — must be them again!
WHO count updated yesterday — over 1000 now. Somebody REALLY needs to get a hold of the inoculation status of those cases.
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/world-map.html