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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Unexpectedly! Monkeypox Community Transmission!
2022-06-05
[ET] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it will be initiating an emergency response to monitor and investigate monkeypox after recent cases suggest that the disease may be spreading through person-to-person community transmission.
Are you sure it's not just a small "community"?
"Identification of monkeypox clusters in several countries that do not have endemic disease and involving patients with no direct travel history to an area with endemic monkeypox suggests person-to-person community spread," wrote the authors of the CDC report.
I didn't see anything about people violating social distancing regulations; might that be a factor?
While a high proportion of individuals currently diagnosed with the disease are men who identify as gay, bisexual, or men who have sex with men (MSM), CDC cautions that the early cases may simply reflect an "early introduction into interconnected social networks" suggesting that the currently observed trends may be biased.

The health agency speculated that current observations of the disease mostly affecting MSM individuals may be due to selection bias by clinicians due to previous established medical relationships between MSM and some clinical STIs and infectious diseases.

Close contact with infected persons or objects likely to carry infection such as linen still remains the most significant risk factor for monkeypox virus infection in humans.
Related:
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Monkeypox: 2022-05-31 Global monkeypox threat upgraded to 'moderate' by World Health Organization amid fears virus will jump to animals and never be eradicated
Monkeypox: 2022-05-24 Think You Have Monkeypox? Watch For These Ten Strange Symptoms
Posted by:Bobby

#8  
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751   2022-06-05 14:24  

#7  Identification of monkeypox clusters in several countries that do not have endemic disease and involving patients with no direct travel history to an area with endemic monkeypox suggests person-to-person community spread

You mean an orgy?
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-06-05 09:31  

#6  From the people who brought you bugchasing.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-06-05 08:12  

#5  Lively group today. Very alert people here. Refreshing.
Posted by: Dale   2022-06-05 08:09  

#4  I declare June MonkeyPox Awareness Month
Posted by: Airandee   2022-06-05 05:53  

#3  Let me get this straight (pun intended) "Men who have sex with men" is a third group? Wouldn't they be either Gay or Bi? Odd that the vast majority of infected are men, 98% in in the UK. Strange virus.....
Posted by: Torquemada   2022-06-05 01:48  

#2  Can I wear my mask as a codpiece this time around?
Posted by: Raj   2022-06-05 00:58  

#1  Like kissing a girl with a visible herpes lesion.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-06-05 00:51  

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