JaneD
JaneD
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Pause for lengthy exploration of upper arm marks. Not a pretty sight.I can’t make out any childhood mark on my arms other than my BCG.
Pause for lengthy exploration of upper arm marks. Not a pretty sight.I can’t make out any childhood mark on my arms other than my BCG.
Monkeypox patients should avoid any contact with their pets for 21 days, according to new advice from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
So far, 106 people in the UK have been confirmed as infected with the virus.
Gerbils, hamsters and other rodents could be particularly susceptible to the disease and the concern is it could spread in the animal population.
The government said no cases have been detected in pets so far and the risk is still low.
"The worry is the virus could get into domestic animals and essentially ping-pong between them and humans," said Prof Lawrence Young, a virologist at the University of Warwick.
"If you are not careful you might create an animal reservoir for the disease that could result in it spreading back into humans, and we'll be in a loop of infection."
OK, I misread that as something I would not have expected from you. The coffee which is now splattered on my screen is nicely mopped up....Apparently if you have Monkeypox, you should keep your hands off your gerbils.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61608384
I keep trying to find the websites where I got that info from. They weren't conspiracy type websites but rather proper science/medical websites. The problem now is that doing a search for anything 'monkeypox' brings up page after page of news related links.
The origins of monkeypox come from a laboratory. Colonies of lab reared monkeys were being used for trials of a smallpox vaccine. The were bred as SPF monkeys (specific pathogen free) for use in trials. The first cases of monkeypox were discovered in those monkeys being trialed with a smallpox vaccine. All the monkeys were isolated from each other during the trials. ...
IIRC the podcast I linked in post 36, the scientist did mention squirrels. Oh yes, now I do remember that she mentioned squirrels because her pronunciation of "squirrel" was quite different than mine.The most widespread populations of wild species known to exhibit traces of exposure to, and to harbor, the monkeypox virus are rodents rather than monkeys
IIRC the podcast I linked in post 36, the scientist did mention squirrels. Oh yes, now I do remember that she mentioned squirrels because her pronunciation of "squirrel" was quite different than mine.
If squirrels and other rodents are more likely to carry this virus, then the virus may become more prevalent.
Despite many people in North America not realizing it, mice are carriers of Hanta virus and squirrel populations are still monitored for the Black Plague virus. These two rodents alone are prevalent in North America. And with climate change, many diseases can travel to regions in which they were never known.
I think the big difference if you were in the UK would be an unexcited doctor telling you to take paracetamol and come back in a couple of weeks if you still had problems (and were still alive)I live in Arizona, and both are endemic here. Hemorrhagic fevers yeah! 40 years ago, I was cutting firewood near Flagstaff. I stepped on a rat nest, got bit by a flea, and my lymph glands swelled up. In my neck, they looked remarkable. My doctor was excited, but it turned out I am allergic to flea spit.
I have talked with tourists at the Grand Canyon who think that the bubonic plague warnings on the information boards are not real. WTF.
Brownmane, has the bubonic plague made it into Canada yet? I have a vague memory that it was found in Wyoming.
I think rodents are a wonderful vector because pathogens and pathogen carriers (like fleas) cross rodent species so easily; dogs and cats eat rodents; and rodents live near people so easily.
... has the bubonic plague made it into Canada yet? ...
https://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/pro/programs/publichealth/oph_standards/docs/plague_chapter.pdfPlague is also present in Canadian wildlife populations in an area of uncertain size in southern Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, as confirmed by surveys conducted in the 1930s and 1990s. Transmission of plague to humans in Canada is extremely rare. The last reported human case occurred in 1939.
I think rodents are a wonderful vector because pathogens and pathogen carriers (like fleas) cross rodent species so easily; dogs and cats eat rodents; and rodents live near people so easily.
Yes, this is an amazing and weird story. I attended college in Flagstaff, Arizona, and took some plagues and pestilence courses. Many classmates were from the Navajo and Hopi reservations. They are very realistic about this stuff.Yersinia pestis, to the best of our knowledge, was introduced to the western US during the 3rd plague pandemic in the late 19th/early 20th century; it's now found in a variety of rodents. The bacterium is known to persist in soil, so burrows that were inhabited by infected animals can remain as reservoirs for quite a while.
I like to misquote Bill Bryson, another enthusiastic amateur - this is the bacteria's world and they just let us live on it. Or as I have been known to refer to them, our bacterial overlords.I am not a bug person like you, and so as an enthusiastic amateur I remain in awe of the weirdness of very small things that change our lives, usually in ways I am unaware of, and that use us!
Be sure to come back and haunt the board.So it turns out there is monkey pox in my region. It's been nice knowing you all.
The origins of monkeypox come from a laboratory.
Oh not again, we had that hassle for 2 years.Exhibiting the symptoms from initial contact with the virus can take months...even years, and seeing as it's a xoonotic disease, originally seen in Laboratory animals in the fifties, and recently seen in Africa during the seventies, there's a good chance that it has been brought out of Africa to the rest of the world.
It is spread by droplet, so, mask on?
Not suspicious at all, is it?No, but they are making samples of it in a little known virological laboratory in a sleepy little town called Wuhan.
(I wish I were joking)
The whole video is fairly interesting, but this starts at the point I'm making:
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Yes, that's my approach too. Add plastic gloves to that.Oh god is this how the future is panning out - waves of pandemics one after the other? A few non-fatal ones to soften us up and then maybe a killer one down the line. Maybe i will hang on to the masks for a while.
Makes one wonder if this is all some type of plan - keeping us under control, etc.Oh god is this how the future is panning out - waves of pandemics one after the other? A few non-fatal ones to soften us up and then maybe a killer one down the line. Maybe i will hang on to the masks for a while.