W.H.O. Declares Global Emergency Over New Monkeypox Outbreak

I have zero interest in eating ass from Congo!

The Congo again? WTF.

DRAT! Have to cancel my vaycay to Brazzaiville.

It’s called MPox. “Monkeypox” is racist.

Ho me, David!

What fool wouldn't have gotten the vaccine?

Can't they just use condoms?!!!

It's ALWAYS the fucking Congo. I would say more but worry some fragile flake will be offended by the TRUTH so I will refrain.

The Congo should change back to Zaire

Yet again the general population will blame gays for starting a disease that the wonderful bushmeat eating people of the Congo actually started. sigh

THANX CONGO people!

^^^ they have been eating it for hundreds of years. WHERE did monkey pox come from ?

R11 da gay butt sex. Dey ead da poopoo!

but kind of we do eat it when we rim - at least i'm not agnostic as to what that part of the body is used for most often, r12

r11 And their bushmeat eating created HIV a hundred years ago in the Congo. Almost 60 years before gays got blamed.

How much you want to bet the origins on Monkeypox get traced back there too?? especially since that is where this new worse strain is coming from.

R13 rim queens are nasty

Rimming feels wonderful, both giving and receiving. It's very erotic.

but you're probably getting a dingleberry, r16 - at least at the microbial level

Go back to preparing Mother's evening meal, r17.

Dinglepox.

It has a Burl Ives Christmas kind of a feel.

R14, diseases usually do extensive test runs in mammals and then, slowly, transition to preying on humans. Mpox did not start out as a sexually transmitted disease; it seems to have evolved into that.

The new clade does not seem to require only sexual contact. Significant cases among children.

r20 what's your point? Some human caused it to spill over into humans regardless. Just like AIDS and Covid

Whose stuff can I have?

R22, some posters were going in about the horrors of bushmeat, as if killing animals and eating them wasn’t something humans have always done. Obviously it is, although it sounds utterly disgusting when you think about it. Practically every illness under the sun jumps from animals to humans in some way.

r24 But maybe just maybe bushmeat is a horrible thing to continue because it creates new zoonotic diseases just like wet markets!

Just because people have done something in the past doesn't mean it should continue. Did you EVER think about that?

Maybe we have to let people know what bushmeat is, r25.

American bushmeat will kill us all too but with something different

Chimps are so closely related to humans - we share 98% of the same DNA - they're not like cows or turkeys.

This new strain is airborne and deadly. It's only a matter of time before it spreads to Europe and North America. It's more serious than Covid. If they don't get this under control and quick, then we're all going to be in lockdown all over again.

JFC this is awful

[quote]Just because people have done something in the past doesn't mean it should continue. Did you EVER think about that?

Damn those lazy African bastards when there's a supermarket just a thousand miles away.

Those Africans! They even figured out how to make a dessert out of monkeys!

I was twice vaccinated when it was a thing a few years ago. Also not eating any Congo ass or licking sweat anytime soon. Have fun guys.

No it’s not, MARY at r29:

[Quote] It can spread through close contact such as touching, kissing or sex, as well as through contaminated materials like sheets, clothing and needles, according to WHO. Symptoms include a fever, a painful rash, headache, muscle and back pain, low energy and enlarged lymph nodes.

From WaPo: "Clade 1b causes more severe illness than the clade 2 viruses that drove the last global outbreak, but it does not appear to be deadlier than the form of mpox long endemic in Congo. Between clades 1 and 1b, Congolese officials have recorded 13,800 suspected and confirmed cases and 450 deaths, with children younger than 15 accounting for 68 percent of cases and 85 percent of deaths, according to the Africa CDC."

Bear in mind many of the children and women will be in poor health already: bad water, malnutrition, etc.

Globe and Mail: Infectious disease specialist Allison McGeer said people cannot catch mpox from casual contact with contaminated items, like trying on clothing in a store, or from inadequately washed bedding at a vacation rental.

Prior to the 2022 outbreak, data from African countries – where mpox is endemic – had indicated the virus was not very transmissible, said Dr. McGeer, a member of the Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium and a professor at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

The current outbreak in Congo began with the spread of an endemic strain, known as clade I. But a new variant, clade Ib, appears to spread more easily through routine close contact, including from mothers to chil

Oh boy!

More fun

You can see the fecal fingerprints of ugly rightwing gay Defacto all over these comments — he’s never happier than when he gets to call Africans dangerous savages.

Then he logs into his latest blosplay account and dazzles us all with his flawless Ebonics.

^^Your obsession with this Defacto person is pathological.

R38 is either defacto or very new here.

No I'm not Defacto. I've been on DL for years and you're nuts.

For how long is the monkey pox vaccine effective?

I got my double dose of monkey pox vaccine in the summer of 2022 when monkey pox first surfaced.

I wonder if this will cause a new wave of hatred and vilification towards gay people? Sigh.

it seems to have caused a new wave of hatred and vilification by gay people towards other people, at least on here

Firstly, stop ass to mouth and wear a condom for casual. Raw fucking is hot but high risk. Nobody wears a anymore, and they have had tricks abandoning them. Don't get me started with load-counting bottoms.

How old are you R44?

Three key points from Reuters (DL won't let me link)

Scientists hope that the emergency declarations will speed up efforts to get more medical tools and funding to Congo to help the authorities there tackle the outbreak. Better surveillance is needed to study the virus and help stop the spread.

The current outbreak, Congo's worst ever, has seen 27,000 cases and more than 1,100 deaths since January 2023, largely among children. The disease causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions, and is usually mild but can kill. Children, pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems, such as those with HIV, are all at higher risk of complications.

Mpox is a significant health problem that is killing some of the most vulnerable people in the world, including children, and a form of it is possibly spreading in new ways and in new parts of Africa. But it is not COVID-19. So far, there is no evidence that it spreads through the air easily like COVID, and there are tools that are proven to work to stop the spread and help those at risk.

The new variant has now spread to Sweden.

^ oops, here's the link

[quote]The person became infected during a stay in an area of Africa where there is currently a major outbreak of mpox Clade 1

Why in the world is anyone from that area allowed to travel outside of it?

Sweden says it has confirmed a first case of mpox clade I, a viral infection that spreads through close contact and is a more dangerous variant of the mpox disease.

Does Mpox sound anything like Mbob?

'Cause we will sue.

r27 *laughs in vegan*

Eating meat is just idiotic. There is no reason to do that to your body other than ignorance and gluttony.

I’m a whore and scared

R47, I blame PewDiePie's ravenous hole.

[quote]It's ALWAYS the fucking Congo.

You forgot about us.

Scott Wiener will make sure that the kink festivals still go on as planned in order for us all to become infected.

R40: La Keller

I never got an vaccination for this. I probably should.

How did it go from monkeypox to mpox and back to monkeypox?

Are we no longer afraid of offending monkeys?

Why don't the chickens get any respect?

"The country went months at a time with no reported cases from the end of 2022 through early this year, following free vaccinations for at-risk groups, aggressive safe-sex messaging and heightened public awareness — even in March of 2023, when Sydney hosted over 20,000 international visitors for the WorldPride festival. That entire year, only 26 cases were reported.

In a dramatic turn, the country saw 179 cases in August alone, more than in the two previous years combined. Nearly 400 have been reported so far in 2024.

Of more than 550 reported cases in Australia so far, only one was in a woman, indicating that transmission is occurring almost exclusively in men who have sex with men."

[Quote] Why don't the chickens get any respect?

Have you ever met a chicken?

The monkeypox probably came from that guy here who always posts about going to sex parties and those “Horse Market Events” without so much as a mask.

I’ve had both monkeypox vaccinations r61

And I also take Prep and doxy pep

I was tested two weeks ago and came back negative for all STIs

Believe in medical science

In the last week, I have had anal sex with at least 8 guys, without shame

Sex without consequences, only camaraderie and joy

How weird that it is only males, and only one female with mpox in Australia. I often believe, without promoting any conspiracy theory, that gays are being targeted .

My lady mpox vac wax about two years ago. Do I need another?

R64 MY LAST MPOX VAX WAS TWO YEARS AGO. DO I NEED ANOTHER? …..AND FUCK YOU AUTOFILL!

As I understand it you should have gotten two vaccinations.... a primary followed by a boost. I don't think there is any data about how long it provides protection but there's some suggestion the titres and protection from smallpox vaccine lasts for decades.

That's it. BBC or not- we're leaving!

"It’s not known how long protection might last, or if protection might decrease over time. CDC is analyzing the current data and conducting studies to enhance the knowledge on how well the JYNNEOS vaccine works during the current mpox outbreak, as well as how long protection might last. These studies will be used to make future vaccine recommendations."

So stop fucking monkeys.

[quote]r65 MY [bold]LAST [/bold]MPOX VAX WAS TWO YEARS AGO …..AND FUCK YOU AUTOFILL!

[italic]Lady Mpox [/italic]could be a GREAT horror film extravaganza!