Monkeypox

[BansheeOne]

11 hours ago, nitflegal said:

It also went political and so many gay men actively behaved in counter-productive ways to demonstrate that they wouldn't be controlled.

A behavior not limited to gays when faced with pandemic control. 😄

[Ivanhoe]

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[Ivanhoe]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10923921/How-SEX-monkeypox-Bizarre-CDC-guide-revealed.html

 

[Ivanhoe]

One of the ballyhooed experts can't WAIT for another lockdown;

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/07/24/blue-check-science-writer-takes-eric-feigl-ding-apart-for-jumping-on-the-omg-reee-monkeypox-bandwagon-grift-in-receipt-filled-thread/

 

[Ivanhoe]

Yeah, this is going to help;

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/3590636-experts-worry-monkeypox-disinformation-will-harm-lgbtq-community/

Since monkeypox is kinda related to smallpox, this may pertain;

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-tb-vaccine-protects-against-a-range-of-infections
 

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When babies in the African countries of Guinea Bissau and Uganda were given the tuberculosis vaccine, something remarkable happened.

Instead of the vaccine only protecting against the target bacteria – Myocbacterium tuberculosis – the tuberculosis vaccine offered broad protection against a range of unrelated infections, including respiratory infections and serious complications such as sepsis.

 

 

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In vaccinated babies, the BCG vaccine reprogrammed or 'trained' monocytes to be more responsive to pathogens in general, and this epigenetic signature was passed down to the next generation of monocytes for more than a year after vaccination.

According to the researchers, this is the mechanism behind the broad, protective effect of BCG vaccines seen in African countries.

 

 

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Monocytes respond to pathogens using receptors on the cell's outside surface.

When these receptors contact a pathogen, it triggers the monocyte cell to 'eat' the pathogen (phagocytosis), which also causes a cascade of events inside the cell where one protein switches on another protein and so on, until this triggers a change in the gene expression of the cell.

Prior exposure to the BCG vaccine repackages the monocyte DNA in a way that speeds this whole process up and gets the genes required to respond to threats switched on quickly, Novakovic told ScienceAlert.

Putting monocytes on high alert makes them more responsive to all infections, not just tuberculosis.

 

 

Of course a possible downside to this mechanism might be an increase in autoimmune diseases, which are not particularly treatable with modern medicinal practice. In the post-industrial west, I think I'd take my chances with smallpox rather than having my family's heritable propensity to autoimmune diseases triggered by a shot. 

 

 

[Angrybk]

1 hour ago, Ivanhoe said:

Yeah, this is going to help;

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/3590636-experts-worry-monkeypox-disinformation-will-harm-lgbtq-community/

Since monkeypox is kinda related to smallpox, this may pertain;

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-tb-vaccine-protects-against-a-range-of-infections
 

 

 

 

Of course a possible downside to this mechanism might be an increase in autoimmune diseases, which are not particularly treatable with modern medicinal practice. In the post-industrial west, I think I'd take my chances with smallpox rather than having my family's heritable propensity to autoimmune diseases triggered by a shot. 

 

 

A lot of gay rights activists are pointing out that the “don’t demonize  LBGT people, anyone can get it” crowd is being extremely counterproductive, since it’s mostly spread by unprotected gay sex and the CDC screwed the pooch once again so there’s a shortage of vaccines. With regards to luckluckys earlier post, I don’t think that unprotected anal sex between straight  partners who don’t know each other well is very common, maybe he’s watched too much porn.

Edited August 7, 2022 by Angrybk

[Ivanhoe]

Happens every mid-April though it is neither safe, sane, nor consensual.

With Biden's roughly 8 trillion new IRS agents coming on board, ain't enough vaseline on planet Earth...

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

From the people that brought you Coronavirus, it's brand new Langya henipavirus!

 

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/newly-identified-langya-virus-tracked-040802050.html

Researchers have begun tracking a newly identified virus in China, with dozens of cases recorded so far.

The novel Langya henipavirus (LayV) was first detected in the north-eastern provinces of Shandong and Henan in late 2018 but was only formally identified by scientists last week.

The virus was likely transmitted from animals to humans, scientists said, and Taiwan’s health authority is now monitoring the spread. The researchers tested wild animals and found LayV viral RNA in more than a quarter of 262 shrews, “a finding that suggests that the shrew may be a natural reservoir”. The virus was also detected in 2% of domestic goats and 5% of dogs.

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There have been no deaths from LayV to date. Prof Wang Linfa of the Duke-NUS Medical School, a co-author of the NEJM paper, told the state-run Global Times that the LayV cases had “not been fatal or very serious” so far and that there was “no need for panic''.

 

Edited August 10, 2022 by Stuart Galbraith

[DB]

Why does this story come out of Taiwan and not West Taiwan?

[bojan]

Because it is not West Taiwan, it is Southern Mongolia.

 

Edited August 10, 2022 by bojan

[Ivanhoe]

Rather Shakespearean; the Tainting of the Shrew.

 

[rmgill]

5 hours ago, bojan said:

Because it is not West Taiwan, it is Southern Mongolia.

 

South Western Manchuria? 

[sunday]

Some preparation:

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NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. is setting aside an extra 50,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine for places with upcoming gay pride events, health officials said Thursday.

The number of doses sent to each place will be based on factors like the size of the event, how many health workers will be available to give shots, and how many of the attendees are considered at highest risk for catching the virus.

Then, this seems a very good question

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2 weeks to slow the spread eh?  How about banning gay orgies for the next six months under penalty of arrest?  They did that to people who wanted to pray, remember, so explain to me why buttfucking 50 dudes in one night is considered a "civil right" but praying in a Church is not.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=246650

[Ivanhoe]

Ummmm

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2022/08/19/cdc-recommends-wearing-masks-to-avoid-monkeypox-ignoring-an-important-factor-n614778

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Just in case you needed yet another reason not to take the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) seriously, this story should suffice. The agency released a study on Friday recommending that people wear face masks, among other measures, to avoid catching monkeypox.

 

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“To assess the presence and degree of surface contamination of household objects contacted by monkeypox patients, [Utah Department of Health and Human Services (UDHHS)] swabbed objects in the home of the patients,” the report explained. “The patients identified high-contact objects and surfaces for sampling; the patients also described cleaning and disinfection activities performed within the home during their illness and locations within the home where they spent substantial amounts of time while ill.”

The study examined 30 different samples from the home and found that 21 of the surfaces showed positive real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) results. However, none showed the presence of a live virus.

 

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-monkey-virus-poised-spillover-humans.html

 

[TrustMe]

Oh god not a another virus.

[nitflegal]

Wow, when researchers realize that their funding and publications get fast tracked if they can tie it to some emergent Covid part 2, Electric Boogaloo there is suddenly a tidal wave of ambiguous papers proclaiming that we have to watch out for [insert virus currently not transmissable to humans]!  Wow, I feel I should suddenly panic even more about stuff. . .

[Ivanhoe]

1 hour ago, TrustMe said:

Oh god not a another virus.

The public health types are drunk with power, they need another pandemic so they can get their power fix.

 

[Ivanhoe]

Speaking of which...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11349241/Lab-Maryland-plans-create-hybrid-monkeypox-strain-contagious-lethal.html
 

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A Government laboratory in Maryland plans to make the circulating monkeypox strain more lethal in highly controversial research in mice.

The team wants to equip the dominant clade - which mostly causes a rash and flu-like symptoms - with genes from another strain that causes severe disease.

They hope the experiment will reveal how different genes make monkeypox more deadly, and spur the development of better drugs and vaccines for humans.

It comes just a week after DailyMail.com revealed a similar experiment involving a hybrid Covid strain was conducted at Boston University. 

The latest monkeypox study is being funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a research arm of National Institutes of Health (NIH).

But the modified virus 'poses an exceptionally high risk' to the public if it accidentally leaks, according to Dr Richard Ebright, a microbiologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

The team in Maryland would argue their work does not involve 'enhancing' a pathogen because they are swapping natural mutations rather than creating new ones, meaning the hybrid cannot be more deadly than the existing clades.

 

NIAID is run by Fauci, the guy who would never fund GOF research except when he does.

Prediction; UltraMonkeyPox will leak from the lab in early summer 2024, just in time to enable another round of totally above-board* mail-in voting for Nov 2024.

* As the saying goes, main-in voting has as much integrity as mail-in drug testing...

 

 

 

 

[rmgill]

13 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

Speaking of which...

NIAID is run by Fauci, the guy who would never fund GOF research except when he does.

 

But it's not GOF research. They picked a new name last year. So they're not doing that. They're doing the same thing but it's called something else. 

[R011]

15 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

Speaking of which...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11349241/Lab-Maryland-plans-create-hybrid-monkeypox-strain-contagious-lethal.html
 

NIAID is run by Fauci, the guy who would never fund GOF research except when he does.

Prediction; UltraMonkeyPox will leak from the lab in early summer 2024, just in time to enable another round of totally above-board* mail-in voting for Nov 2024.

* As the saying goes, main-in voting has as much integrity as mail-in drug testing...

 

 

 

 

The Daily Mail misrepresented the Boston University research, so what are the odds they're misrepresenting this as well?

[Ivanhoe]

Did the DM misrepresent anything?
 

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.13.512134v1.full.pdf

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This study provides important insights into Omicron pathogenicity. We show that spike, the single most mutated protein in Omicron, has an incomplete role in Omicron attenuation. In in vitro infection assays, the Omicron spike-bearing ancestral SARS-CoV-2 (Omi-S) exhibits much higher replication efficiency compared with Omicron. Similarly, in K18-hACE2 mice, Omi-S contrasts with non-fatal Omicron and causes a severe disease leading to around 80% mortality. This suggests that mutations outside of spike are major determinants of the attenuated pathogenicity of Omicron in K18-hACE2 mice. Further studies are needed to identify those mutations and decipher their mechanisms of action.

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://thepostmillennial.com/nearly-50-of-participants-in-monkeypox-in-women-study-were-biological-men
 

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A study on monkeypox in women was published in The Lancet recently in which almost half of the cohort being studied were males who identify as women.

In the study published in the world-class medical journal on November 17, researchers analyzed data for a total of 136 individuals with the monkeypox virus infection across 15 countries. There were 62 “trans women,” 69 “cis” women, and 5 non-binary individuals who were grouped with the “cis” women to form a category of “people assigned female at birth.”