Monkeypox
Above you'll find Monkeypox Tracker, keeping track of it's global spread in real time.
There are two types of monkeypox virus: Clade I and Clade II.
Clade I is found in the Congo Basin and causes up to 10% human mortality. It's transmitted by rodents and has little human-to-human spread.
Clade I is capable of human-to-human spread but has previously been associated with non-sexual routes of transmission.
The other clade of monkeypox virus is Clade II, which exists in West Africa and has a low mortality. Infections with Clade IIb are rarely fatal.
The illness typically lasts 2-4 weeks. It's characterized by rash or skin lesions that are usually concentrated on the face, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet. The typical rash progresses through several stages over 1-2 weeks.
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July 2024
What you need to know
Mpox Treatment Strategies, Clinical Presentation, and Diagnostic Approaches
How worried should you be about Monkeypox? Dr. Philip Huang explains
New Monkeypox Symptoms - Monkeypox: New clinical symptoms in confirmed cases Doctor Mike Hansen
Monkeypox Narrative Built On Lies?; WHO to Use ‘Pandemic Treaty’ to Control Public Health?
Unlike SARS-CoV-2, which spreads through tiny air-borne droplets called aerosols, monkeypox is thought to spread from close contact with bodily fluids, such as saliva from coughing. That means a person with monkeypox is likely to infect far fewer close contacts than someone with SARS-CoV-2. Both viruses can cause flu-like symptoms, but monkeypox also triggers enlarged lymph nodes and, eventually, distinctive fluid-filled lesions on the face, hands and feet. Most people recover from monkeypox in a few weeks without treatment.
Structure of protein methyltransferase from the monkeypox virus deciphered
Aug 2024 Is a much deadlier strain of monkeypox going to be the next great global health scare?
Dec 2023 Deadly monkeypox strain kills an alarming 1 in 10 people, CDC warns
May 2023 CDC issues an urgent health emergency, confirm that MONKEY POX is spreading amongst the FULLY VACCINATED
Feb 2023 Video: What Ever Happened to Monkeypox?
Nov 2022 Video What You Need to Know about Monkeypox
“Monkeypox” is only circulating in Countries where the population have been given the Pfizer Vaccine
See AIDs-Like Syndrome / COVID & Monkeypox
Oct 24 2 Dead With Monkeypox In NYC As Officials Rename It 'Stigmatizing' Disease
Video What is the difference between monkey pox and chickenpox?
Video How can I protect myself from monkeypox? – Just A Minute! with Dr. Peter Marks
Sept 7, 2022 U.S. Monkeypox Cases Surpass 20,000, Most of Any Country
Aug 30, 2022 Texas adult with monkeypox dies, may be first U.S. death from the virus
Aug 12 Video: Monkeypox Update: How it Spreads, Tecovirimat, and Jynneos
Aug 12, 2022 Family pet tests for monkeypox as first human-to-dog transmission case confirmed
Aug 2022 Spanish Study Reveals 40% Have Severe Form of Monkeypox https://sputniknews.com/20220809/spanish-study-reveals-40-have-severe-form-of-monkeypox-reports-say-1099419289.html)
Monkeypox Can Survive for Weeks in Water and on Refrigerated Food
July 2022 Where did Money Pock$ come from?
What a coincidence that FDA approved a sketchy monkeypox vaccine in 2019
July 27, 2022 WHO: Monkeypox Outbreak Caused No Deaths in Europe So Far (https://sputniknews.com/20220726/who-monkeypox-outbreak-caused-no-deaths-in-europe-so-far-1097829226.html)
July 26, 2022 US Reports Highest Number of Monkeypox Cases Globally (https://sputniknews.com/20220726/us-reports-highest-number-of-monkeypox-cases-globally-1097821085.html)
July 23, 2022 Here We Go: WHO Declares Monkeypox Outbreak a Global Health Emergency
July 23, 2022 WHO Admits Everyone Who Receives a MonkeyPox Vaccine is Part of a “Clinical Trial” to Collect Data on its Effectiveness (VIDEO)
Debate Over - ALL ‘Vaccines' Including The New JYNNEOS Monkeypox Concoction, Harm Human Physiological Functions
July 25, 2022 Video Why 16K cases is enough for WHO to declare Monkeypox a global health emergency
July 23, 2022 Video LIVE: WHO holds press briefing on Monkeypox
July 23, 2022 US records first two CHILD monkeypox cases: California toddler and an infant in D.C. were likely infected by 'household contacts' and both had contact with gay or bisexual men, CDC chief says
July 22, 2022 US Monkeypox Cases Increase By 500 In Five Days, Per CDC
July 17, 2022 The Absolutely Terrifying Truth About This New Monkeypox Pandemic A lot of people out there are downplaying this new monkeypox pandemic, and I believe that is a huge mistake. If a smallpox outbreak had suddenly erupted, everyone would be totally freaking out. But the general public doesn’t seem very alarmed about monkeypox even though it is very closely related to smallpox. According to the official CDC website, monkeypox “is part of the same family of viruses as variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox”. In the past, monkeypox has not spread easily among humans, but something has changed that has now made that possible. As I detailed last week, scientists are telling us that approximately 50 key mutations have turned this bug into something new that we haven’t seen before.
Most people seem to think that the hideous sores that this virus produces on the skin are the most frightening aspect of this disease, but that isn’t true.
Many of the victims that have had monkeypox so far are telling us that the worst part is the absolutely excruciating pain. In fact, one man that has had both COVID and monkeypox says that monkeypox is “100 times worse”…
Monkeypox has now spread to 76 different countries, and a total of 12,701 cases have been reported.
That may not sound like a lot, but the number of cases has continued to rise at an exponential pace.
If the number of cases continues to double at the current rate, it won’t be too long before we are facing a nightmare scenario… Read more at above link
July 16, 2022 Monkeypox Vaccine Booking System Crashes mid Soaring Demand
July 2022 Video: The WHO holds a briefing on Monkeypox, COVID and Ukraine
June 25, 2022 The World Health Organization (WHO) has stopped short of raising the alert over the monkeypox outbreak to the highest level during an emergency committee meeting on Saturday. However, the head of the UN watchdog, Tedros Ghebreyesus, called it “an evolving health threat.”
“I am deeply concerned by the spread of monkeypox, which has now been identified in more than 50 countries, across five WHO regions, with 3000 cases since early May,” Ghebreyesus said in a statement following the meeting. Read more...
June 27, 2022 MonkeyPox Vaccine Has HIGHER Rates of Heart Disease Side Effects than COVID Vaccines
June 24, 2022 Monkeypox jab to be offered to at-risk gay and bisexual men UK
June 24, 2022 U.S. monkeypox response mirrors early coronavirus missteps, experts say
June 24, 2022 Current Monkeypox Virus May Be Showing Accelerated Evolution as More New Cases Rise
June 23, 2022: ‘A coalition of scientists formed against the Covid-19 threat has declared the Monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Global Concern. This comes days after the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee has been convened due to the spread of the Monkeypox virus to 32 non-endemic countries.
The World Health Network declares the monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Global Concern, by which it indicates that this outbreak is not limited to a single country or region and should be addressed by immediate actions taken wherever community transmission is taking place in order to ensure that the least effort is needed and the smallest impact is suffered due to this outbreak,” the WHN said.” Source
June 2022 Monkeypox and sexual networks
June 15, 2022 CDC Issues New Guidance on Monkeypox Symptoms as US Cases Balloon (https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/cdc-issues-new-guidance-on-monkeypox-symptoms-as-us-cases-balloon/3736301/)
Many recent monkeypox patients first developed rashes in the mouth or around the genitals or anus, which deviates from past cases
June 14, 2022 Video: LIVE: The WHO holds a briefing on monkeypox and other global health issues
June 14, 2022 Video: Yale University Monkeypox Update
June 9 2022 Monkeypox is Following the COVID Playbook Step by Step
June 8, 2022 Monkeypox UPGRADED to same severity level as leprosy and plague
June Monkeypox can 'masquerade' as other conditions, with wide range of symptom severity
June 7 Video: Monkeypox Origin and Human Transmission
June Video: Monkypox Mutation Update
June 1 Video Monkeypox Centre Issues Guidelines; Stresses On Surveillance and Isolation
May 2022 Video: Dead Microbiologists, Bio-Labs and Monkey Pox
May 30, 2022 REVEALED: Fauci’s Recent, $10M Monkeypox Grant.
May 2022 Wuhan Bio Lab Carried Out Gain Of Function Research On Monkeypox Virus
1988 The transmission potential of monkeypox virus in human populations Data on monkeypox in Zaire over the five years 1980-1984 are analysed to assess the protection imparted by past smallpox vaccination and the transmission potential of the virus in unvaccinated communities. Attack rates in individuals with and without vaccination scars indicated that smallpox vaccination (discontinued in 1980) imparted approximately 85% protection against monkeypox. It is predicted that monkeypox virus will continue to be introduced into human communities from animal sources, and that the average magnitude and duration of monkeypox epidemics will increase as vaccine-derived protection declines in the population. On the other hand, current evidence indicates that the virus is appreciably less transmissible than was smallpox, and that it will not persist in human communities, even in the total absence of vaccination. The findings thus support the recommendation of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication to cease routine smallpox vaccination in monkeypox endemic areas, but to encourage continued epidemiological surveillance.
May 27, Video DR. MCCULLOUGH ON MONKEYPOX
May 25 2022 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Jynneos vaccine is being released to potential high-risk contacts of the early monkeypox patients. The two-dose vaccine was intended to prevent smallpox and specifically to fight monkeypox. There are reportedly approximately 1,000 doses of the approved vaccine in the US, while there are millions of doses of an older smallpox vaccine, though there could be severe side effects to the treatment.
Scientists in Portugal have spotted mutations in 50 parts of 'hypermutated' virus that has infected at least 171
Sporadic monkeypox infections are spotted outside of Africa but these have always fizzled out after few cases
Health chiefs alarmed about 'unprecedented' cases, which disproportionately struck gay and bisexual men
May 23, 2022 First Mandatory Quarantines For Monkeypox As White House Warns Of More Cases
Monkeypox: a new variant? Looks like quite a lot of divergence by DNA virus standards has occurred: maybe a new variant or strain of Monkeypox is also driving the spread: 94 nucleotide changes and 51 amino acid: that seems extremely high for a DNA virus.
WHO Exercise paper from November 2021 is about Monkey Pox, see page 8; page 12 has the start infection date as May 15, 2022
Website Medicinfo writes the following about the monkeypox vaccine: “The disease can be prevented by avoiding contact with animals such as monkeys, squirrels and other animals. The monkeypox infection can be partially prevented by vaccination. However, the risk of complications from the vaccine is almost as great as the risk of developing the disease. A mass vaccination program against monkeypox is not practical because the disease is rare. The smallpox vaccine offers some protection against monkeypox.”
Monkeypox Spreads in West, Baffling African Scientists “This is not the kind of spread we’ve seen in West Africa, so there may be something new happening in the West”
May 20, 2022 Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert
May 18, 2022 U.S. monkeypox case reported, as Spain, Portugal report infections in growing outbreak A small number of people who’ve caught monkeypox, a chickenpox-like infection, has been identified in the United Kingdom, United States, Spain and Portugal. Some of these individuals have not travelled to West or Central Africa, where the disease is more common and is thought to jump to people through contact with wild animals. This suggests that the virus is spreading under the radar in the United States and Europe. “We’re seeing this expansion of confirmed and suspect cases globally,” says Jennifer McQuiston at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We have a sense that no one has their arms around this to know how large and expansive it might be.”
May 20, 2022 Monkeypox Detected in Growing Number of Countries -
May 15, 2022 Monkeypox: What we know about the smallpox-like virus spreading in the UK
July 20, 2021 Man in China dies of rare 'monkey B' virus
July 21 Monkeypox fears as CDC monitors 200 people in 27 states for possible exposure
July 16, 2021 CDC Scrambles After Rare Case Of Monkeypox Turns Up In Texas
Sept 2019 FDA Approves Smallpox, Monkeypox Vaccine
Monkeypox was first discovered in 1958 when two outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in colonies of monkeys kept for research, hence the name ‘monkeypox.’ The first human case of monkeypox was recorded in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo during a period of intensified effort to eliminate smallpox. Since then, monkeypox has been reported in humans in other central and western African countries. Human monkeypox infections have only been documented six times outside of Africa; in the United States in 2003 (47 cases), in both the United Kingdom (3 cases) and Israel (1 case) in 2018, in Singapore in 2019 (1 case) and in both the United Kingdom (3 cases) and the United States (1 case) in 2021.
There are two distinct genetic groups (clades) of monkeypox virus—Central African and West African. Human infections with the Central African monkeypox virus clade are typically more severe compared to those with the West African virus clade and have a higher mortality. Person-to-person spread is well-documented for Central African monkeypox virus and limited with West African monkeypox.
Monkeypox is a relative of smallpox, a disease which was eradicated in 1980, but is less transmissible, causes milder symptoms and is less deadly.
The illness typically lasts for two to four weeks and symptoms can appear anywhere from five to 21 days after infection.
Monkeypox symptoms usually begin with a mix of fever, headaches, muscle aches, backache, chills, exhaustion, and swollen lymph nodes.
This latter symptom is typically what helps doctors distinguish monkeypox from chickenpox or smallpox, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Once you have a fever, the key feature of monkeypox, a nasty rash, tends to develop one to three days later, often starting on the face and then spreading to other parts of the body.
The number of lesions may range from a few to thousands.
The lesions will go through an ugly ripening process, from macules (flat lesions) to papules (raised lesions), vesicles (fluid-filled lesions), then pustules (pus-filled lesions) and then finally scabs (crusty lesions) before eventually falling off.
How do you catch monkeypox?
You can catch the virus from the bite or scratch of an infected animal, by eating bush meat, being in direct contact with an infected human or touching contaminated bedding or clothing.
The virus enters the body through skin lesions, the respiratory tract, or the mucous membranes (the eyes, nose, or mouth).
Human-to-human transmission is thought to occur primarily through large respiratory droplets, which generally cannot travel more than a few feet, so prolonged face-to-face contact would be needed.