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© 2022 AFPMonkeypox retreating but threat remains, experts warn
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virusrex
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).
OnTheTrail
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.
painkiller
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.
Algernon LaCroix
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...
virusrex
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.
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.
Covid vaccines also do work according to the medical and scientific consensus.
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?
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.
Algernon LaCroix
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.
4Tno
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.
virusrex
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.
Algernon LaCroix
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.
virusrex
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.
Again, which officials said that the vaccines would be eternally, perfectly effective against all and any variant that could appear in the future? none?
canigetawhatwhat
Cant let us forget about it, so whip up another headline. Yawn
Hermitage Nads
Gaypox isn't a major issue outside those who engage in certain high risk activities
Lord Dartmouth
Whatever.