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Rehashing smarter people’s arguments: - monkey pox really doesn’t transfer easily between people. There have been cases of it being brought to Europe/Us before
by rich_sasha 4y ago
Rehashing smarter people’s arguments:
- monkey pox really doesn’t transfer easily between people. There have been cases of it being brought to Europe/Us before but very little onwards transmission
- a common transmission vector this time appears to be men having sex with men - close contact indeed
- it’s a DNA virus so it doesn’t mutate anywhere near as fast as an RNA virus like flu or Coronaviruses
- people are infectious when symptomatic
- a vaccine already exists, just isn’t in use, and the disease is fairly well understood
Additionally, with a long-ish incubation period of 1-3 weeks, it is likely that cases will still keep going up for a while while awareness increases.
But all in all, it seems like much more easily avoidable than Covid. Even so, it feels like it’s being taken seriously, which is quite reassuring.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/monkeypox-cases-confirmed-in-england-latest-updates https://www.gov.uk/government/news/monkeypox-cases-confirmed...
- shinryuu 4y ago> a common transmission vector this time appears to be men having sex with men - close contact indeed Wouldn't it be equally likely if a man had sex with a woman? Why has the transmission been more likely for two men to have sex?
- pvg 4y agoPossibly the same reason HIV is more transmissible that way.
- sterlind 4y agoI think it'd be more accurate to say "anal sex," rather than sex between men. There's a lot of ways to have gay sex. Men practicing oral sex and frottage are much less likely to transmit HIV, and heterosexual couples can do anal too.
- pvg 4y agoIf that is indeed the mechanism, the 'same way as HIV' covers all that.