Beware of the Coming Monkey Business By Brian Simpson
We have been speculating about whether monkeypox will be the next big viral thing. While it has been largely restricted to one particular community, there are claims that it is spreading. It is supposedly hard to get, although some children have caught it. Thus, it is possible that there could be a new crisis generated. This time the disease has alarming features, and will scare people intro submission; the sores are nasty, but then again, so is adult chickenpox. It will pay to get quietly prepared for possible future lockdowns, for we do not want to be like the poor folk in China, welded into their cages. And, the whole vax freak out will begin again. Hopefully, this storm will blow over, but there will be another.
“Australians are warned to be on high alert for monkeypox symptoms after 40 cases were found to be locally acquired, and health authorities race to find the source of the spread.
Monkeypox was first detected in Australia in May.
Since then, there have been 129 cases recorded across the country, 67 in Victoria - 40 of which were locally spread - 50 in New South Wales, five in Western Australia, three in Queensland, two in the Australian Capital Territory and two in South Australia.
The majority of Australia's cases have been 'imported' from travellers returning home from overseas holidays, but data from Victoria shows a worrying new trend of the virus moving and spreading in the local community.
Eight people are currently receiving hospital treatment for monkeypox in Victoria from a total of 17 active cases.
The World Health Organisation said the current fatality rate of monkeypox is between three and six per cent but has historically reached as high as 11 per cent, so about one in ten people dying from the disease.”
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