More Fear Porn: The Monkeypox Thread

[Midnight]

CDC Finally Admits Most Cases of Monkeypox Have Been Associated with Sexual Contact – Says Risk of Monkeypox in US is Low

By Jim Hoft

Published August 25, 2022 at 9:08pm




According to the latest CDC recommendations for parents, teachers, and administrators, extra precautions are not necessary to prevent the spread of monkeypox in schools and child care centers.



The new CDC guidelines, released as a set of FAQs on the agency’s website, come at a time when health departments around the country are issuing their own guidelines for schools in preparation for the return of students.



“At this time, the risk of monkeypox to children and adolescents in the United States is low,” according to CDC.



“In this outbreak, most cases of monkeypox have been associated with sexual contact,” the agency added. “Monkeypox can more accurately be described as “sexually transmissible.”



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“At this time, data suggest that gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men make up the majority of cases in the current monkeypox outbreak,” CDC said.



The Gateway Previously reported that health experts now believe monkeypox is spread through anal and oral sex between men.



“In recent weeks, a growing body of scientific evidence — including a trio of studies published in peer-reviewed journals, as well as reports from national, regional and global health authorities — has suggested that experts may have framed monkeypox’s typical transmission route precisely backward,” according to NBC.



In order to limit the spread of infectious diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that all facilities adhere to standard operating procedures.



“This includes children, staff, and volunteers staying home when sick, ensuring access to adequate handwashing supplies, including soap and water, maintaining routine cleaning and disinfection practices, identifying private spaces for assessment of an ill child away from others, and providing personal protective equipment (PPE) for staff who care for students with infectious diseases.”



CDC does not recommend widespread vaccination against monkeypox at this time.



“During this outbreak, people who are sexually active are not considered to be at risk for monkeypox unless their sexual partners have monkeypox or they have had multiple sexual partners within the past 14 days in areas where monkeypox cases have been reported,” CDC said.



As of August 22, the CDC recorded almost 17,000 cases in the country with zero deaths.



The Gateway Pundit reported that eight children were infected with monkeypox including an infant child under the age of 2, citing a report from ABC.



At least eight children in the U.S. have now tested positive for monkeypox, after health officials in Harris County, Texas, confirmed to ABC News that a presumptive case had been identified in a child under the age of 2.



The news of the positive pediatric case in Texas comes after a child in Martin County, Florida, has tested positive for monkeypox, according to state health data. The child in Florida is between the ages of 0 and 4 years old, according to the state health data.



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Officials in Maine also announced Friday that they, too, had confirmed a positive monkeypox case in a child. No further information about the case has been released due to concerns over patient privacy, officials said.



“Maine CDC

is working to identify any others who may have been exposed and make vaccination available to close contacts,” officials wrote in a press release.



In addition to the cases in children reported in Maine and Florida, two cases have been confirmed in California, as well another two in Indiana, and a case in a non-U.S. resident reported in Washington, D.C.



So are officials investigating these cases?


And what about the dog that got monkeypox?



Scientists have reported the first human-to-pet transmission of monkeypox when the dog of a gay French couple became infected after sharing a bed with its infected owners.

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It is suspected that gay men, ages 44 and 27, caught the virus as a result of having sexual contact with other men during their non-monogamous relationships.

[Berean]

W.H.O. Says Monkeypox Is Racist: Decrees ‘Mpox’ as Alternative


SIMON KENT
28 Nov 2022

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has dismissed the term monkeypox as inherently racist, decreeing “mpox” should be used instead when referring to the virus as a way of sparing the feelings and easing the stigma of those enduring an attack.



The Geneva, Switzerland-based organization said the move had been prompted by concerns not just over implied racism inferred by anyone who uses the term but lamented it stigmatized sufferers earlier this year when the term gained common usage.



“In several meetings, public and private, a number of individuals and countries raised concerns and asked W.H.O. to propose a way forward to change the name,” it said.



Monkeypox was originally so-named because the virus was originally identified in monkeys kept for research in Denmark in 1958.



The W.H.O. flagged the pending change earlier this year by forming a committee to investigate the matter, as Breitbart News reported.

The disease has been found in a number of animals and most frequently in rodents, before crossing species and infecting humans.



The W.H.O. said when making the decision it considered scientific appropriateness, its use in different languages, the absence of geographical or zoological references and the ease of retrieving of historical scientific information.



“Mpox will become a preferred term, replacing monkeypox, after a transition period of one year,” the organization said. “This serves to mitigate the concerns raised by experts about confusion caused by a name change in the midst of a global outbreak.”

The Foreign Press Association, Africa, previously asked Western media outlets to avoid using images of Africans when showing monkeypox.



“As any other disease, it can occur in any region in the world and afflict anyone, regardless of race or ethnicity,” the group said.



The group added that it was “disturbing” media outlets would instantly use images of black skin when showing monkeypox.


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Monkeypox is a rare disease that was first detected among humans in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1970.



Though it sometimes spreads to other nations, the disease is mostly located in central and western Africa. It often transmits from animals (primates or rodents) to humans through a bite or scratch.



Assigning names to new and to existing diseases is the responsibility of W.H.O. under the International Classification of Diseases and the W.H.O. Family of International Health Related Classifications through a consultative process, ABC News reports.

[OmegaMan]

NIH official caught developing new version of monkeypox that’s 1,000 times more lethal than the last one

Thursday, April 06, 2023 by: Ethan Huff

Tags: badhealth, biowar, bioweapon, Dangerous, depopulation, Federal Select Agent, Lawrence Tabak, lethal, monkeypox, NIH, Plague, terrorism



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(Natural News) Several members of Congress are trying to get answers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) about a researcher there who is tampering with multiple different strains of monkeypox in order to produce a super-monkeypox virus that is 1,000 times more deadly than the last one.



House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wa.), Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) recently sent a second letter to Lawrence Tabak, a senior official at the NIH who is currently performing the duties of director, requesting details about the project. They sent an initial letter back on Oct. 31, 2022, but never received any response.



In this second letter, the three members of Congress also included a formal notice asking the NIH to preserve all existing and future records and materials related to the new monkeypox project so it can be reviewed and scrutinized at some point in the future.


Why is the government once again tampering with deadly bioweapons – and using YOUR tax dollars to do it?

What the unnamed NIH employee is doing with the project involves transferring genes from “clade 1” or Congo Basin clade monkeypox virus into “clade 2” or West African clade monkeypox virus.



The clade 1 variety of monkeypox is extremely rare, and is said to be 1,000 times more lethal in mice than the current circulating version, which is clade 2. Clade 1 monkeypox is so dangerous that it is currently classified as a Federal Select Agent.



Information about the specifics of this gene-splicing experiment came to light after the researcher in question started discussing his plans in a September 2022 Science article about the work of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which up until last year was headed up by Tony Fauci, on monkeypox.



“Based on the available information, it appears the project is reasonably anticipated to yield a lab-generated monkeypox virus that is 1,000 times more lethal in mice than the monkeypox virus currently circulating in humans and that transmits as efficiently as the monkeypox virus currently circulating in humans,” a key excerpt from that article reads.



“The risk-benefit ratio indicates potentially serious risks without clear civilian practical applications. Accordingly, this experiment would seem to involve risks reasonably anticipated to create, transfer, or use PPPs resulting from the enhancement of a pathogen’s transmissibility or virulence in humans. Thus, under the circumstances, we are interested in learning whether this experiment was reviewed under the HHS P3CO framework used to review research proposals posing significant biosafety or biosecurity risks.”



The article goes on to state that clade 2 monkeypox, the kind supposedly in circulation right now, is not all that worrisome with a less than one percent mortality rate. Conversely, clade 1 monkeypox has a 10 percent case fatality rate, which is much more significant.



“Because of its significantly greater lethality, clade 1 or Congo Basin clade monkeypox viruses are regulated as select agents by the Federal Select Agents Program,” the report goes on to state.



“Entities that possess, use, or transfer this agent must comply with the HHS Select Agent and Toxin Regulations unless there is an applicable exemption or exclusion. Thus, under these regulations, it would appear the clade 1 monkeypox virus experiment is a restricted experiment that must be reviewed by the Federal Select Agent Program, and may be further reviewed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Intragovernmental Select Agents and Toxins Technical Advisory Committee (ISATTAC).”



The latest news coverage about the government’s ongoing public health scare tactic campaigns can be found at Plague.info.


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[Midnight]

World Health Organization Officially Ends Monkeypox Health Emergency


JOHN HAYWARD1
2 May 2023

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Thursday declared a formal end to its monkeypox emergency due to rapidly declining case numbers around the world. The monkeypox crisis wound up lasting almost exactly one year.



W.H.O. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted monkeypox is still a threat in parts of Africa as it has always been. Fears of a pandemic only began after a mysterious surge of cases in Europe and North America in May 2022.



“However, as with [Wuhan coronavirus], that does not mean that the work is over. While the emergencies of mpox and [Wuhan coronavirus] are both over, the threat of resurgent waves remains for both. Both viruses continue to circulate and both continue to kill,” Tedros said when announcing the end of the public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).



W.H.O. declared a PHEIC in July 2022 after convening an emergency panel to study the unprecedented spike in European and American infections. Monkeypox, an unpleasant and sometimes disfiguring but rarely fatal disease, was previously almost unknown outside of Africa, where it is indeed spread by contact between monkeys and humans.



The Biden administration followed suit in August 2022 by declaring a public health emergency, a move that made more funding and personnel available to combat monkeypox.



“We’re prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus, and we urge every American to take monkeypox seriously and to take responsibility to help us tackle this virus,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in August when announcing the emergency.



The burgeoning panic over monkeypox fizzled, and the disease became a political football when it became apparent the outbreak was largely due to homosexual men passing monkeypox to each other through intercourse. Infections also tended to be much more severe for people with untreated HIV.



Numerous political controversies broke out, including a push to rename the disease because calling it “monkeypox” was somehow insulting. As seen in the W.H.O. statement, the politically correct name is now “mpox.”



Some LGBTQ activists feared allowing monkeypox to become known as a “gay disease” would be demeaning, while others were angry at the Biden administration for concealing the true nature of the epidemic instead of warning gay people to take sensible precautions and making vaccines available to them.


Cynical observers marveled that American and European officials who relished micromanaging the lives of citizens during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic were suddenly reluctant to advise refraining from the behavior known to spread monkeypox. Gay Americans and Europeans figured it out on their own with impressive speed, demonstrating high levels of awareness in surveys taken just a few months after the outbreak began.



Infections began to decline sharply by the end of last summer. According to Tedros on Thursday, infections fell by 90 percent over the past three months, leaving W.H.O.’s tally from the outbreak at roughly 87,000 cases and 140 deaths in 111 countries.



“While stigma has been a driving concern in managing this epidemic and continues to hamper access to care for mpox, the feared backlash against the most affected communities has largely not materialized. For that, we are thankful,” the W.H.O. director said.



Monkeypox was all but forgotten by the public by the end of 2022, which some epidemiologists believe is a mistake because the disease spread widely enough to gain a lasting foothold in Europe and America.



African doctors also lamented the loss of international attention on a disease that remains a chronic problem on their continent. They especially feared that the end of W.H.O.’s PHEIC designation could reduce the resources available to control monkeypox outbreaks in Africa and devise new vaccines.



W.H.O. Emergencies Director Mike Ryan said he was “shocked” at how little international funding was dedicated to fighting monkeypox in Africa, musing that it might be “an issue of the continued prejudices that exist in the world.”



The Washington Post reported on Friday that monkeypox is making a bit of a comeback among gay and bisexual men, with clusters of cases reported in Chicago and France, although overall infection rates remain low.



Chicago has documented 14 cases over the past few weeks, 10 of them in people who were vaccinated. 80 percent of the patients were men who said they had sex with other men, and some of the remaining 20 percent did not reveal their sexual orientation.



The Jynneos vaccine against monkeypox is estimated to be 70 percent effective after two shots, but it remains unclear how long the protection lasts. Booster shots are currently not recommended by health officials.



“Last year’s mpox outbreak started in the spring, driven in part by festivals, pride events and other celebrations popular among gay men where attendees are traveling and having sex with new partners,” the Washington Post noted.



Flashback: CDC Director Walensky: We Don’t Have All the “Data That We Need” on Monkeypox, It’s Similar to What We Had with COVID

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[ExquisiteGerbil]

CDC Warns that Pride Events Could Spawn Massive Monkeypox Outbreak
TUESDAY, JUN 06, 2023 - 09:25 PM

Submitted by Mark Pellin via Headline USA,



Experts warn possible Monkeypox resurgence due to pride month

Only weeks after approving revamped guidelines that allow gay men to donate blood without previously-required screening for AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases largely prevalent in the LGBT community, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sounded the alarm for a potential outbreak of monkeypox.



In an ominous assessment issued late last month, the CDC warned that an “uptick in mpox cases in Chicago that began in mid-April underscores the risk of renewed mpox outbreaks, which we judge is substantial across the United States.”



Mpox, the preferred moniker since monkeypox was cancelled as racist by Biden regime leftists, has remained relatively rare in the general population while persisting to cause concern for LGBT communities where transmission rates are highest.



The concern gained added urgency last month with the looming onslaught of so-called Pride Month parades, festivals and protests.



“CDC continues to assess that the risk of resurgent mpox outbreaks is substantial in the United States,” the agency wrote in its May update. “The risk of outbreaks could further increase as people gather this spring and summer for festivals and other events with high potential for skin-to-skin contact or increased sexual activity.”



Adding to the potential crisis, the CDC also acknowledged that it was exploring a theory that the monkeypox virus “may have evolved mutations to evade the two-dose Jynneos vaccines that were rolled out last year to protect against it,” CBS News reported.



The possible mutations were detected “in a cluster of cases” around Los Angeles, which officials said indicated that drug-resistant monkeypox could be transmitted person-to-person in at least “rare cases.”



Those cases could spread rapidly in a tidal wave of LGBT Pride events scheduled across the country, including large cities that are hotspots for LGBT activists.



“Cases of mpox in San Francisco remain low, however, we remain watchful, as several new cases have recently been reported in other parts of the country,” San Francisco Health official Dr. Susan Philip said in statement released by the agency “in advance of the summer season and Pride Celebrations.”



“We want to make sure that everyone can enjoy a happy and healthy Pride,” Philip said.



In response to the monkeypox cluster outbreak in Chicago, the Biden administration is weighing a recommendation for more mpox vaccine boosters. A shift in strategy might be needed, said the regime’s national monkeypox response deputy coordinator, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, reportedly seen in April spreading the Biden doctrine in Las Vegas at the 2023 Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit.

“We’ve already, really immediately after seeing the Chicago cluster, convened folks within the U.S. government to discuss what the data is that we have and if there needs to be any change,” Daskalakis said last month.

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