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Ask HN: Can some doctors here talk about Monkeypox risk and outlook?
Reddit was full of great content for covid but it seems empty for Monkeypox info. I can’t tell if pandemic fatigue is leading people to not talk more about this. What’s going on?
- andsoitis 4y agohttps://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html
- rdtwo 4y agoI think he’s looking for a more trustworthy source.
- mtmail 4y agohttps://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching/videos has updates on monkeypox. He's a registered nurse in the NHS. Since everybody has a bias: he's pro vaccination, pro masks, pro social distancing (when it came to COVID). He usually comments on latest studies and has done so for two years.
- darrrwin 4y agoA doctor told me this: Transfer is through close physical contact. Risk higher for people that have anal sex. It's possible to transfer without sexual contact (injured skin), but sex is the most common.
- h2odragon 4y agoOutlook seems to be pretty good; there's apparently very few deaths resulting from this outbreak. I think survivors are likely to have some cross immunity for smallpox.