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> monkeypox is not highly transmissible and smallpox vaccine is effective against it. And we have a lot of smallpox vaccine - commenter in thread So what's th

• rich_sasha 4y ago
  Cases and transmission outside Africa have happened before, but usually in low-single-digit numbers, eg someone contracts the disease in Africa, some household members catch it, end of story. Now we’re easily in double-digits, perhaps into three now across Europe, seemingly from a single original case. Plenty of reasons not to be too concerned, equally it is rising quickly if things are left as is.
• elorant 4y ago
  The vaccine isn't used anymore. We'll have to vaccinate younger people from the start.
  • yread 4y ago
    and the live vaccine is only 85% effective with higher risk of adverse effects (for example for people with eczema https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/eczema/childhood/health-concerns/smallpox#:~:text=Anyone%20who%20has%20(or%20had)%20eczema%2C%20should%20avoid%3A,gets%20the%20live%20smallpox%20vaccine https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/eczema/childhood/health-... )
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• hdjjhhvvhga 4y ago
  At the end of the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeypox#2022_outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeypox#2022_outbreak they mention the monkeypox virus being used by Russia in their bioweapons program. I don't believe it would make any sense for them to use it now, but on the other hand, Putin hasn't been behaving rationally for a while.
  • karencarits 4y ago
    The Wikipedia article is frequently edited now and this part seems to have been removed