Monkeypox: WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases cross 100 in Europe

[Robbie Key]

Doubt it will evolve to something bigger but might be good to keep an eye on this.

WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases cross 100 in Europe

Published May 20, 2022 6:36 p.m. CEST

LONDON - The World Health Organization was due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox, a viral infection more common to west and central Africa, after more than 100 cases were confirmed or suspected in Europe.

In what Germany described as the largest-ever outbreak in Europe, cases have now been confirmed in at least five countries - the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Germany and Italy- as well as the United States, Canada and Australia.

First identified in monkeys, the disease typically spreads through close contact and has rarely spread outside Africa, so this series of cases has triggered concern.

However, scientists do not expect the outbreak to evolve into a pandemic like COVID-19, given the virus does not spread as easily as SARS-COV-2.

Monkeypox is usually a mild viral illness, characterized by symptoms of fever as well as a distinctive bumpy rash.

"With several confirmed cases in the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal, this is the largest and most widespread outbreak of monkeypox ever seen in Europe," said Germany's armed forces' medical service, which detected its first case in the country on Friday.

Fabian Leendertz, from the Robert Koch Institute, described the outbreak as an epidemic.

"However it is very unlikely that this epidemic will last long. The cases can be well isolated via contact tracing and there are also drugs and effective vaccines that can be used if necessary," he said.

There isn't a specific vaccine for monkeypox, but data shows that vaccines that were used to eradicate smallpox are up to 85 per cent effective against monkeypox, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

British authorities on Thursday said they had offered a smallpox vaccine to some healthcare workers and others who may have been exposed to monkeypox.

The WHO committee due to meet is the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Infectious Hazards with Pandemic and Epidemic Potential (STAG-IH), which advises WHO on infection risks that could pose a threat to global health.

UNUSUAL CASES
Since 1970, monkeypox cases have been reported in 11 African countries. Nigeria has had a large outbreak since 2017 - so far this year there have been 46 suspected cases, of which 15 have since been confirmed, according to the WHO.

The first European case was confirmed on May 7 in an individual who returned to England from Nigeria.

Since then, more than 100 cases have been confirmed outside Africa, according to a tracker by a University of Oxford academic.

Many of the cases are not linked to travel to the continent. As a result, the cause of this outbreak is unclear, although health authorities have said that there is potentially some degree of community spread.

In Britain, where 20 cases have been now confirmed, the UK Health Security Agency said the recent cases in the country were predominantly among men who self-identified as gay, bisexual or men who have sex with men.

The 14 cases in Portugal that were all detected in sexual health clinics are also in men who self-identify as gay, bisexual or men who have sex with men.

Health authorities in Spain said 23 new cases were confirmed on Friday, mainly in the Madrid region where most infections were linked to an outbreak in an adult sauna.

It was too early to say if the illness has morphed into a sexually transmitted disease, said Alessio D'Amato, health commissioner of the Lazio region in Italy. Three cases have been reported so far in the country.

Sexual contact, by definition, is close contact, added Stuart Neil, professor of virology at Kings College London.

"The idea that there's some sort of sexual transmission in this, I think, is a little bit of a stretch," he said.

Scientists are sequencing the virus from different cases to see if they are linked, the WHO has said. The agency is expected to provide an update soon.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/who-ca...rope-1.5912498

[odin]

Sounds like some European fags have been satisfying their jungle fever by traveling to the actual jungle.

[ZEK S 854]

In the first hours of its life in the current circumstance, the virus was known in the establishment media as the monkey paw pox but then, in abject horror, changed the term to merely monkey pox due to the association of the term `monkey paw' with blacks. The mass media will eventually declare that talking about monkey paw pox is racist, in and of itself. (Big Surprise). As the disease has the power to do harm to Whites, this virus is at the same stage as Covid-19 a few months before Tedros at the WHO declared Covid to be a pandemic. Watch for an increasing number of cases and the accompanying anxiety in the establishment media because of the origins of monkey paw pox in africa. As the disease worsens and inflicts itself upon Europe and all other ostensibly White nations, look for two things: 1) The Establishment media demanding a name change for monkey paw pox due to its association with africa and 2) a minimization of the dangers of the disease.
So far, the media has adopted its usual and deliberate failure to understand how the disease is worsening in the West. The media wants to obscure and minimize the manner in which the disease is contracted. Have you been to a major international airport lately, with their huge line-ups at both departures and arrivals, especially at the massive Customs and Immigration hall lines? There is very little social distancing as most people believe the Covid threat is past.
Watch for the changes and draw the logical conclusions from those observations.

[Crowe]

Are you all ready for the new monkey pox vax and a gauntlet of boosters every 2 months for 2 years? They got away with it once, and the cucks are gonna be begging for more jabs. Krispy Kreme is calling.

[Ole Massa]

Ugh. Just more made-up garbage from the left.

[Robbie Key]

Russia: US labs in Nigeria responsible for monkeypox outbreak
Saturday, 28 May 2022 10:03 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 28 May 2022 10:23 AM ]

Russia says US-controlled biological laboratories in Nigeria, where monkeypox came from, are responsible for the spread of the viral zoonosis, urging inspection of the “strange coincidence”.

Citing a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) that monkeypox originally spread from Nigeria, Igor Kirillov, chief of the Russian Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops, said on Friday that US-deployed biological infrastructure in the African country was responsible for the outbreak.

"According to the available information, at least four US-controlled biolaboratories operate in Nigeria," Sputnik quoted Kirillov as saying, adding that US biolabs were present in the cities of Abuja, Zaria and Lagos.

Kirilov called on the WHO to investigate the alleged US role in spreading monkeypox, noting it is necessary to point out a "strange coincidence that requires additional inspection by specialists."

"According to European and US media, materials of 2021 Munich Security Conference (that is, amid the COVID-19 pandemic) mentioned practice of monkeypox countering scenario," the commander added.

Meanwhile, an interview with RT Arabic on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Central Asian countries have US-funded biolabs, and Moscow is discussing this issue with its neighbors both bilaterally and through the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) for implementation of biological safety.

"With practically all the CSTO countries and other CIS countries, we have either concluded or are preparing to conclude memorandums of cooperation on biological safety, stipulating for mutual disclosures on how biological programs are developing in each of our countries," Lavrov added.

"These memorandums envisage mutual visits and examinations of the activities of the laboratories," he said, adding that having “transparency” to “make sure that these programs do not have a military dimension” is of paramount importance.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/0...eypox-outbreak

[RobertTorres]

"Russia: US labs in Nigeria responsible for monkeypox outbreak"

Thats certainly possible.

It seems to me the jew is pulling a trick,
where it sets up a lab in YOUR community,
to maybe cook half of the weapon (maybe the whole thing),
and then completes the formula, with the antidiote, in a stockpile with nukes in Israel,
throws it on YOU, and says that YOU did it!

That china and the blacks are cooking Bio-Weapons, eating bats and fucking monkeys,
and spilling it all over themselves and spreading aids out of New York on fag shit.

Did anybody else kind get the feeling,
that "MONKEY-pox" was already trying to suggest a finger at the niggers?
The jew does that.

And if you think about it,
setting up that lab in your community is also supposed to keep you in line.
Like the way the jew controls RINO's like matt gaetz, by getting them on tape fucking children.
We hear that canada is doing jew bioweapon work.
And that keeps canada in line pushing jew propaganda.
Unless they want that to suddenly start spilling, or coming out in the media.

[Robbie Key]

29 Jun, 2022 03:29

US government to distribute monkeypox vaccines

The announcement came as the country surpassed 300 infections nationwide

The White House is set to hand out nearly 2 million monkeypox vaccines in the coming months, beginning with an initial phase of around 300,000 doses as part of a new national strategy against the potentially dangerous virus.

The White House announced the strategy on Tuesday, noting that 56,000 vaccine doses would be allocated immediately, followed by 240,000 additional shots “over the coming weeks.” Another 1.6 million doses will be made available later this year.

“The vaccine strategy will help immediately address the spread of the virus by providing vaccines across the country to individuals at high risk,” the White House said, adding that the first leg of the plan “aims to rapidly deploy vaccines in the most affected communities and mitigate the spread of the disease.”

The administration went on to say that 32 states and jurisdictions had requested vaccines so far, and that more than 9,000 doses and 300 antiviral treatments had been deployed. As of Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it had confirmed a total of 305 monkeypox cases in the US, while more than 4,400 have been detected abroad.

In addition to doling out hundreds of thousands of vaccines, the White House said it would “dramatically expand” testing for monkeypox across the country, after the CDC began shipping approved test kits to several major commercial laboratories. To further improve availability, the CDC has published its protocol for the tests, which can be used by third-party labs without FDA authorization.

Health agencies signed a multi-million-dollar deal in May, agreeing to buy up to 13 million doses of the Jynneos vaccine from Danish pharma firm Bavarian Nordic. It was originally created for smallpox, but was approved for use against monkeypox by the FDA in 2019. The latest contract will not be fulfilled until next year, however, meaning the White House will have to rely on existing stocks.

To supplement the supply of the Jynneos vaccine, another inoculation, ACAM2000, will also be available to states and territories. Like Jynneos, ACAM2000 was developed for smallpox but has been authorized for dual use, though the White House warned that the latter “carries greater risk of certain serious side effects” for those with existing heart and immune conditions.

https://www.rt.com/news/558036-white...ypox-vaccines/

[Robbie Key]

Global monkeypox outbreak surpasses 10,000 infections

14 July 2022

The number of confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox infections globally has passed the 10,000 mark, according to official figures. As of July 14, there have been 11,042 total cases, of which 11,006 have been confirmed.

The daily figure has risen to over 500 cases on a seven-day rolling average. Europe continues to remain the epicenter of the global outbreak. Seventy-four non-endemic countries and territories (outside the central African region where monkeypox has existed for decades) have reported such cases, including eight on the African continent.

Spain has the highest case count, with 2,447 monkeypox infections. Germany and the UK are neck and neck with 1,790 and 1,789 cases, respectively. Case counts in France and Italy continue to climb, and Russia was the latest country across the Eurasian landmass that reported its first confirmed case.

North America, followed by Latin America, are other regions where monkeypox cases are soaring. The United States has reported 1,049 monkeypox infections, with approximately 76 cases per day on a moving average. Compared to last week, cases are up nearly 40 percent.

California, New York, Illinois and the District of Columbia have the highest infection rates. In New York City and San Francisco, the public health departments have said that their stock of monkeypox vaccines, made from the attenuated strain of the vaccinia virus, is exhausted.

With 484 monkeypox infections, Canada has seen a 60 percent jump in cases since July 4. Quebec has seen the lion’s share of cases, with 284. Ontario and British Columbia are also seeing a growing number of infections.

Brazil reported its first case back on June 8. Low single-digit daily infection numbers were being confirmed until the end of June when a sudden spike in cases was observed. The highest single-day count was on July 6, with 36 confirmed cases. In all, the country now has tallied 227 cases. Additionally, almost every country neighboring Brazil has also seen such cases reported to their respective public health departments. Mexico has also seen a sudden surge in cases recently.

The Director-General for the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, affirmed at last Tuesday’s press briefing that the emergency committee for monkeypox would reconvene to examine the recent trends in infections and response by countries in deploying countermeasures against the virus.

On June 24, the emergency committee, in what amounted to be a split decision, favored not declaring the outbreak a pandemic and allowing more time to accrue while the WHO gathered further evidence on trends in cases and newly affected geographic regions. They noted that reconvening the committee would depend on several criteria, including case and death rates, spread outside affected LGBT communities, changes in the virulence of the virus and the establishment of the virus in animal populations.

They insisted that the WHO and national public health institutions work with the high-risk communities where cases remain predominately among men who have sex with men and workers at clubs and spas where such sexual activities occur. The emergency committee also recommended that health institutes work with vaccine developers and consult experts in the field to raise awareness about the disease and initiate the infrastructure for tracing, testing and treating infected and close contacts.

Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam, president of the New England Complex Systems Institute and co-founder of the World Health Network (WHN), has been rightly critical of the WHO for its delay in declaring the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. The WHN had preemptively declared monkeypox a pandemic on June 22, ahead of the initial emergency committee meeting, to bring pressure on the global health organization.

Bar-Yam, who had in late January 2020 raised concerns about the WHO’s slowness in alerting the world of the threat posed by the rapidly growing global transmission of COVID-19, said recently, during an online webinar to discuss the monkeypox pandemic, “The reason to declare monkeypox a pandemic is to alert everyone to take action to prevent more cases from happening. That is the essential motivation. If you [WHO] tell everyone everything is ok, then everyone will go about their usual business.”

He added, “The countries where cases are occurring are limiting the testing and interventions with a focus on men who have sex with men and that community and known exposures. As we know from other pandemics, there is an undercounting and lack of clarity of what transmission is taking place, and we have a challenge of knowing the true magnitude.”

Guest speaker Dr. Kavita Patel, a family medicine physician in Washington D.C. and former Obama administration director of policy for the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, spoke about the lack of familiarity among physicians and health institutes about monkeypox infections.

“Unless a patient raises concerns directly about a rash and monkeypox, most won’t entertain the diagnosis,” she said. “There are so many gaps in education now,” both in health care and at the community level. She added there was a significant need to implement testing and vaccine clinics immediately.

Dr. Patel also told listeners that with LabCorp signing on, there are now five US commercial laboratories, Aegis Science, LabCorp, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Quest Diagnostic and Sonic Healthcare, that can run PCR tests for monkeypox. Yet, she noted, “US capacity is about 60,000 tests per week which are not enough.” Also, the testing and turnaround on these specimens can be laborious, and may take up to three days, further delaying the diagnosis and enabling the continued spread of the virus.

Dr. Patel added, “This has been what we have needed quickly to keep it contained and use a ring vaccination strategy—a post-prophylaxis strategy [where the vaccines are given after exposure to the pathogen to decrease the severity of the disease]. If we had better, more widely available testing, we would have had a better ability. Now, in New York City, D.C. and San Francisco, we have run out of Jynneos [monkeypox vaccine manufactured by Bavarian Nordic]. We are turning to the smallpox vaccine, but it is very difficult to use because of its terrible side effects.”

The manufacturer of the monkeypox vaccine is presently undergoing system modifications at its plants, and production of the vaccines will be limited for the next several quarters. Modeling the monkeypox virus cases leads to estimates that the UK could expect 60,000 cases per day by the end of 2022 and, conceivably, a half-million cases or more by the end of September.

Epidemiologist Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, a co-founder of the WHN, warned that though the number of cases remains small, it is growing at about 40 to 50 percent per week, or 10-fold growth over six weeks. He said, “Case counts are increasing from 300 to 400 daily cases a week on seven-day averages. The US broke the 1,000 barrier and cases are accelerating.”

He criticized the CDC’s arbitrary and mechanical risk categorization that labeled intermediate risk as anyone in close contact with an infected person for more than six hours without a mask. The panel urged listeners to understand that all transmission routes were viable and to be aware that smallpox, which is in the same family of viruses as monkeypox, can be passed on through airborne transmission.

Bar-Yam added, “Masking is a good idea, but there is no guidance for it. Masks are important, and these need to be acknowledged. There seem to be competing factions at the CDC on what they recommend. The confusion is dangerous, and clear guidance is required.” The WHN-sponsored panel strongly urged everyone to mask and noted that the CDC had previously endorsed their use for monkeypox.

In concluding his initial remarks, Feigl-Ding warned that as cases of monkeypox in communities accelerated, with schools set to open this fall, the likelihood of these infections spreading among children was a major problem as the virus is most dangerous to the youngest. They also have never previously received the smallpox vaccine, meaning they are immunologically naïve to the virus and lack any previous protection.

Bar-Yam explained the evidence for disease severity in children comes from clinical experience in Africa, where the virus is endemic. In population-based studies on monkeypox, pediatric patients made the bulk of those admitted to hospitals and ICUs. He also warned that the consequences of monkeypox infection in immunocompromised patients and pregnant women could be catastrophic.

The panelists also raised the following caveats about the Jynneos vaccine. Though it is safe in the immunocompromised, it hasn’t been evaluated in pregnant or breastfeeding women and is also not authorized in those under 18, the most vulnerable population.

On a question from the audience about health systems becoming vectors of transmission for the monkeypox virus, Dr. Patel said she was very concerned about this issue. Considering the lack of awareness at most health institutions on the signs and symptoms of monkeypox and the slow turnaround in test results, she said this was a genuine possibility. Hospitals should take precautions against airborne transmission of monkeypox. Dr. Patel said, “If patients test negative for COVID, health care providers will let routine procedures slide.” She urged that those on the frontline of health care settings should receive the monkeypox vaccines to protect them and their patients.

Bar-Yam summarized, “A WHO declaration of a pandemic would be significant. But there remains a vacuum of leadership.” He reflected, “I sat at a recent WHO meeting. They didn’t go into using masks or travel testing. Though they did say it isn’t just sexual transmission and anyone can get infected, they did not convey the message of urgency. The need to identify cases quickly was not well communicated. There is a desire to maintain calm. However, this is interpreted as the sense that there is no urgency. To solve this problem, we must first communicate the urgency [to act].”

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/202.../ynxm-j15.html

[Joe from OH]

Originally Posted by Robbie Key

Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam, president of the New England Complex Systems Institute and co-founder of the World Health Network (WHN), has been rightly critical of the WHO for its delay in declaring the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. The WHN had preemptively declared monkeypox a pandemic on June 22, ahead of the initial emergency committee meeting, to bring pressure on the global health organization.

Bar-Yam, who had in late January 2020 raised concerns about the WHO’s slowness in alerting the world of the threat posed by the rapidly growing global transmission of COVID-19, said recently, during an online webinar to discuss the monkeypox pandemic, “The reason to declare monkeypox a pandemic is to alert everyone to take action to prevent more cases from happening. That is the essential motivation. If you [WHO] tell everyone everything is ok, then everyone will go about their usual business.”




https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/202.../ynxm-j15.html

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries...ary?id=2250210

Loving mother of Sageet (Dan) Braha, Yaneer (Naomi) Bar-Yam and the late Aureet Bar-Yam, all of Newton. Adored grandmother of Shlomiya (Binyamin) Lightfoot, Yavni, Maayan (Teva Apkon) and Taeer Bar-Yam; Neoreet, Lehaveet and Oran Braha; great-grandmother of Tirsiyah and Deuel Lightfoot. Parents Nahum Yosef (1887-1936) and Nehama (Hocherg) Mark (1901-1981). Born in Jerusalem, one of seven siblings. Youth in Israel through War of Independence,

Every. Single. Time.

The world needs a break from jews. A permanent one.

[Robbie Key]

WHO declares highest alert over monkeypox

Published 7 minutes ago

The monkeypox outbreak has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.

The classification is the highest alert that the WHO can issue and follows a worldwide upsurge in cases.

It came at the end of the second meeting of the WHO's emergency committee on the virus.

More than 16,000 cases have now been reported from 75 countries, said WHO director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

There had been five deaths so far as a result of the outbreak, he added.

There are only two other such health emergencies at present - the coronavirus pandemic and the continuing effort to eradicate polio.

Dr Tedros said the emergency committee had been unable to reach a consensus on whether the monkeypox outbreak should be classified as a global health emergency.

However, he said the outbreak had spread around the world rapidly and he had decided that it was indeed of international concern.

"The WHO's assessment is that the risk of monkeypox is moderate globally and in all regions, except in the European region, where we assess the risk as high," he added.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62279436

[Stewart Meadows]

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Jew politician Scott Wiener, who supported draconian restrictions during the COVID outbreak, thinks that homosexuals should be allowed to continue to have orgies during the current monkeypox outbreak:




Here are the sources for the above graphic:

Senator Scott Wiener
@Scott_Wiener

We need a national mask mandate. Period. That’s how we beat this virus.

10:29 PM · Oct 24, 2020 from San Francisco, CA

https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/sta...rc=twsrc%5Etfw

“If people want to have sex, they are going to have sex,” said California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who is involved in the city’s monkeypox response. “I know people who normally go to sex parties who will not. People will make their own decisions about their own risk levels.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...-gay-safe-sex/

And yes, this is the same Scott Wiener who successfully introduced a bill to the California State Senate that reduces penalties for homosexual men who sodomize children:

California: Gay Activist's Bill Reducing Penalties for Man-On-Boy Sodomy Passes State Senate


ERIC STRIKER • SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Senate Bill 145, a law that exempts mandatory sex offender registration for adult men who sodomize boys as young as 14, has passed the California State Senate and is now on Gavin Newsom’s desk.

The bill was authored by San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener, a member of both the LGBT and Jewish Caucus. Six out of seven Senators in Wiener’s Jewish caucus voted with him to pass the bill, the exception being Susan Rubio who appears to have been absent for the effort.

https://www.unz.com/estriker/califor...-state-senate/

Scott Wiener (born May 11, 1970)[1] is an American politician and a member of the California State Senate. A Democrat, he represents the 11th Senate District, encompassing San Francisco and parts of San Mateo County.
(...)
Wiener was born to a Jewish family[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Wiener

Scott Wiener. "Trust me, goyim."

[Stewart Meadows]

[Stewart Meadows]

Rightwing media embraces Aids-era homophobia in monkeypox coverage


Health experts want to talk to men who have sex with men about monkeypox. Stigmatization of gay sex makes that harder

Wilfred Chan
Wed 10 Aug 2022 11.00 BST

The conservative campaign against LGBTQ+ rights has found a new fixation for its hatred: monkeypox. On TV, rightwing commentators openly mock monkeypox victims – the vast majority of whom are men who have sex with men – and blame them for getting the disease. On social media, rightwing users trade memes about how the “cure” to monkeypox is straight marriage while casting doubt on monkeypox vaccines’ efficacy.

This aggressive stigmatization of monkeypox – reminiscent of the homophobic response to HIV/Aids in the 1980s – poses a serious challenge to public health advocates and community leaders trying to have honest conversations about the disease with the gay and bisexual men who are most at risk during the current outbreak. Should public messaging highlight the fact that monkeypox is primarily affecting men who have sex with men? And should public health bodies urge gay men to change their sexual practices?
(...)
Last week, the CDC appointed Dr Demetre Dasklakis, a gay man and renowned Aids activist, as the deputy coordinator of its national monkeypox response. Days later, the agency published guidance for preventing monkeypox through safer sex that includes an illustration of two men in a bed. The article recommended people limit their number of sex partners, avoid anonymous hookups, and “wash your hands, fetish gear, sex toys” after having sex. It also suggested socially distanced or video masturbation as alternatives to sex.

“Chastity. Celibacy. Modesty. Disciplined. Not being gross. Keeping your legs closed. All viable options, people,” tweeted the Republican commentator Kathy Barnette in response to the CDC’s guidance.

“Still waiting for gay men who are having random sex with strangers during the Monkeypox outbreak to get lectured and scolded by public health authorities the way that the rest of us did for going to grocery stores and restaurants during Covid,” tweeted the Daily Caller’s Matt Walsh.

And in late July, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson tweeted a poll declaring that the disease should be renamed “schlong Covid”, tagging the CDC.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...gbtq-rightwing

[Stewart Meadows]

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As I'm sure you can imagine, the monkeypox outbreak is especially bad in San Fagcisco:

'This is kind of a travesty': SF supervisors slam monkeypox outbreak response


UPDATED ON: JULY 21, 2022 / 5:00 PM / CBS/BAY CITY NEWS SERVICE

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco supervisors on Thursday lambasted the public health response to the ongoing global monkeypox outbreak, calling for improved communication with at-risk groups and an influx of vaccine doses.

San Francisco currently has 141 confirmed cases, more than half of the 266 that have been confirmed statewide as of Tuesday.

The vast majority of the city's cases have been confirmed in gay or bisexual men between the ages of 25 and 54, and some 42 percent of the confirmed cases have been in Asian, Black or Hispanic residents.

Dr. Stephanie Cohen, the medical director of the San Francisco City Clinic and director of HIV and STI prevention within the city's Department of Public Health, said the city requested a conservative estimate of 35,000 monkeypox vaccine doses, but has only received roughly 7,700 doses.
(...)
The virus has been confirmed globally in many men who identify as gay or bisexual, but public health officials have stressed that the virus is not exclusive to men who are attracted to men, and anyone can contract monkeypox via close contact with an infected person.

Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, one of two LGBTQ members of the board and the supervisor who called for the hearing, compared the response to the monkeypox outbreak to the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, calling it "eerily familiar" for those who remember the epidemic's early days.

Mandelman also called the federal effort to provide more doses of the two-dose Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox and smallpox "totally inadequate" for the scope of the current outbreak, pointing to the rapid and successful effort to vaccinate some 40 million people against COVID-19 in the first three months after the vaccines became available in late 2020.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...reak-response/

Supervisor Rafael Mandelman

And yes, this is the same Rafael Mandelman who has stated that he wants to bring back the filthy, infamous, AIDS-ridden bathhouses:

Mandelman bringing bathhouses back to The City


New ordinance would amend health code restrictions imposed in 1980s

MJ JOHNSON Feb. 16, 2020 1:30 a.m.

Largely banished since the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, gay bathhouses could return to San Francisco under new legislation introduced to the Board of Supervisors.

District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents the Castro neighborhood, introduced an ordinance Tuesday calling for the Department of Public Health to amend city standards established in the 1980s for adult sex venues that effectively shut down gay bathhouses.

Mandelman said bathhouses were once the focal point of the gay community and health care advancements to help prevent the transmission of HIV has made the standards outdated.

“In many ways they symbolized the newfound freedom to live out, proud and happy that gay men from previous generations could never experience,” Mandelman said. “Our current regulations for adult sex venues were put in place as an emergency measure at the height of the AIDS crisis, when San Francisco was desperate to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS.”

https://www.jweekly.com/2017/03/03/q...he-good-fight/

In the following article from the jewish news site Jweekly, Mandelman talks about how his jewish origin has shaped his life and work:

Q&A: A City College champion who won the good fight


BY ROBERT NAGLER MILLER | MARCH 3, 2017

Name: Rafael Mandelman
Age: 43
City: San Francisco
Position: Trustee, City College of San Francisco
(...)
How do you stay involved in Jewish life?

In addition to the Jewish Community Relations Council, I’m on the New Generations board of the New Israel Fund, and I’m a member of Congregation Sha’ar Zahav. I’m definitely proud of the Jewish progressive tradition. I think my social justice work is pretty informed by my Jewish background and by my grandmother’s having been a Holocaust survivor. We are obligated to work to preserve peace and justice.

https://www.jweekly.com/2017/03/03/q...he-good-fight/

Rafael Mandelman. "Trust me, goyim."

[zoomcopter]

Originally Posted by Stewart Meadows

And yes, this is the same Rafael Mandelman who has stated that he wants to bring back the filthy, infamous, AIDS-ridden bathhouses:

Rafael Mandelman. "Trust me, goyim."

Maybe we should just let monkeypox run it's course?

[zoomcopter]

Originally Posted by Stewart Meadows

And yes, this is the same Scott Wiener who successfully introduced a bill to the California State Senate that reduces penalties for homosexual men who sodomize children:

Scott Wiener. "Trust me, goyim."

Every single time.

[Stewart Meadows]

[Stewart Meadows]

[Stewart Meadows]

A high rate of monkeypox cases occur in people with HIV. Here are 3 theories why


September 9, 2022 5:07 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition



New data shows a high instance of monkeypox among people who are HIV positive. Above: a finger prick test for an HIV test.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

In recent months, as the monkeypox virus swept through Europe, the Americas and parts of Asia, researchers discovered a puzzling trend: A large proportion of monkeypox cases have been occurring in people with HIV.

A new paper, published last week in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly, reviews 2,000 monkeypox cases in the first two months of the U.S. outbreak and finds that nearly 40% are in people with HIV. That tracks with what health authorities from the European CDC and the World Health Organization have reported – their data show that around 37-45% of reported cases have been identified in people living with HIV.

So why are there so many monkeypox patients with HIV? Health experts have an initial thought to answer that question and then three theories on key contributing factors – with a leading contender among them.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsan...n-people-with-

Oh yeah, it's a huge mystery.