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Monkeypox retreating but threat remains, experts warn

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A preliminary analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month however found that unvaccinated people were 14 times more at risk of getting monkeypox.

Hardly surprising except for antivaxxer groups that are unable to accept that for infectous diseases a vaccine is a terribly useful tool for control.

In general these are good news, the outbreak was identified late, so a lot of cases appeared suddenly, but it was never suspected to be something that would spread uncontrollably so control was just a matter of time (and some effort).

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Individual risk assessment would suggest that I, a heterosexual monogamous male with approximately zero physical contact with anyone other than my wife would suggest a vaccine would be of little use to me. Your mileage may vary.

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Monkeypox retreating but threat remains, experts warn

It's going---but it's still here!

Basic fear mongering recipe.

At least nothing silly like changing the name of this disease has taken place.

But no thanks to the WHO agency, that was late to the game in identifying this outbreak. Some things never change.

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Hardly surprising except for antivaxxer groups that are unable to accept that for infectous diseases a vaccine is a terribly useful tool for control.

That depends if the vaccine does what it's designed to do. The monkeypox vaccine seems to do it. No argument there. But there are some other recent examples where that isn't necessarily that case...

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Basic fear mongering recipe.

Valid information is not fear mongering, that only applies for people with deep antiscientific bias that reject anything that a scientific or medical authority says about ahything.

But no thanks to the WHO agency, that was late to the game in identifying this outbreak. Some things never change.

Who identified the international outbreak before the WHO? the systems for the dectection of the different outbreaks worked fine to identify it and contain it before it became a serious health problem for the different countries, with only limited number of victims, the current control is precisely based on this.

That's because the smallpox vaccine is actually a vaccine. It works.

Covid vaccines also do work according to the medical and scientific consensus.

There have been calls to assess the rate of monkeypox infection for people who have taken Covid vaccines vs. people who refused them as preliminary evidence suggests that monkeypox is hitting communities that are highly vaccinated with mRNA vaccines harder than those with natural immunity.

Making up imaginary things to criticize the covid vaccines is sure proof that there is nothing actually happening that could be used that way. Do you have any actual report from a respected medical or scientific institution saying this? or is it just something coming up from a youtube video?

That depends if the vaccine does what it's designed to do.

Again, this also applies for covid vaccines, that are doing even more than what they were designed to do, being still useful preventing complications and deaths even in people infected with variants, something that surpass what was actually expected.

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Again, this also applies for covid vaccines, that are doing even more than what they were designed to do, being still useful preventing complications and deaths even in people infected with variants, something that surpass what was actually expected.

With apologies to John McEnroe, you cannot be serious! They were supposed to stop the spread. They didn't. They've been somewhat successful in preventing deaths, but have also caused others from adverse effects. There is no way you can possibly claim they are doing more than they were designed to do.

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Nearly 90 percent of the cases have been among men who had sex with men, the WHO said.

That sure took a long time to admit that monkeypox was predominantly a gay infection. I don't recall the WHO or any media source saying that from the beginning.

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With apologies to John McEnroe, you cannot be serious! They were supposed to stop the spread. They didn't.

According to whom you? because that is not what the experts said, vaccines were to help reducing the spreading, and obviously that applied only as long as variants did not appear, that they still have an effect now with very different variants is a huge bonus that was not expected. Saying otherwise is just making up something nobody expected from the vaccines.

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According to whom you? because that is not what the experts said, vaccines were to help reducing the spreading, and obviously that applied only as long as variants did not appear, that they still have an effect now with very different variants is a huge bonus that was not expected. Saying otherwise is just making up something nobody expected from the vaccines.

This what your propaganda machine said. When in fact even the Pfizer exec admitted the other day that they didn't know whether it stopped the spread or not. Yet they made no effort to correct all those officials who claimed that it did. Who are these "experts" you speak of? The ones from that phoney consensus? Anyone untainted by pharmacash?

At least with the monkeypox vaccine, it pretty much does what is claimed.

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This what your propaganda machine said

Since you have always fail to bring any source where this was said it is obvious this is not true, just imaginary things antivaxxer groups pretend so they have anything to criticize because the actual things that vaccines were said to do were accomplished very nicely with the results that can be observed by anybody in the world.

 Yet they made no effort to correct all those officials who claimed that it did.

Again, which officials said that the vaccines would be eternally, perfectly effective against all and any variant that could appear in the future? none?

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Cant let us forget about it, so whip up another headline. Yawn

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Gaypox isn't a major issue outside those who engage in certain high risk activities

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Whatever.

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