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2023-12-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — As Congo copes with its biggest outbreak of mpox, scientists warn discrimination against gay and bisexual men on the continent could make it worse.

In November, the World Health Organization reported that mpox, also known as monkeypox, was being spread via sex in Congo for the first time. That is a significant departure from previous flare-ups, where the virus mainly sickened people in contact with diseased animals.

Mpox has been in parts of central and west Africa for decades, but it was not until 2022 that it was documented to spread via sex; most of the 91,00 people infected in approximately 100 countries that year were gay or bisexual men.

In Africa, unwillingness to report symptoms could drive the outbreak underground, said Dimie Ogoina, an infectious diseases specialist at the Niger Delta University in Nigeria.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-28 05:25|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Niger & Nigeria are two different countries, right?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-28 07:23|| 2023-12-28 07:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Make Mayor Pete MonkeyPox Czar. Give him an extra $1

Posted by Frank G 2023-12-28 07:35|| 2023-12-28 07:35|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Well, he has some expertise in vectors...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-28 07:53|| 2023-12-28 07:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Bongo bongo bongo, don’t be boning dudes in the Congo, no no no no no. No no no no no.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-28 08:24|| 2023-12-28 08:24|| Front Page Top

#5 A classic case of 'Death by Bunga Bunga.'

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-28 08:26|| 2023-12-28 08:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Totally racist AP: talking Monkeypox in Africa requires a feelz abbreviation.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-12-28 12:14|| 2023-12-28 12:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Say it Homer style: Mmmmmmpox. Or maybe not.

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2023-12-28 17:45|| 2023-12-28 17:45|| Front Page Top

#8 monkeypox, was being spread via sex
vs
the virus mainly sickened people in contact with diseased animals.

Not to get all biological, but aren't those the same thing?

Posted by SteveS 2023-12-28 18:26|| 2023-12-28 18:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Dieter from Sprockets: "Do you want to... touch my monkey?"

"Now, we dance..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-28 18:30|| 2023-12-28 18:30|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ I forgot to get a Unitard

Posted by Frank G 2023-12-28 19:05|| 2023-12-28 19:05|| Front Page Top

#11 #8 - Nicely played

Posted by Frank G 2023-12-28 19:06|| 2023-12-28 19:06|| Front Page Top

#12 A Tale of Old Homo Caudatus,
Of swinging both ways, and the Watoose,
Of scratching of notches
And other monks' crotches:
"We're nearly not queer,
Though -- wife, beer! -- clearly dear."
And I fear that's how monkeypox got loose.

Posted by Spike Ghibelline2133 2023-12-28 21:56|| 2023-12-28 21:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Good lord, was that picture there before? Hard to miss... but I managed it. Yikes.

Posted by Spike Ghibelline2133 2023-12-28 22:01|| 2023-12-28 22:01|| Front Page Top

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