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Bubbagumpredditor t1_ixo9iha wrote

Reply to comment by Gemmabeta in UK study suggests single dose of monkeypox vaccine is 78% effective by tonymmorley

Yes, that's what happens when you properly handle public health emergencies

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DrewsBag t1_ixos6ps wrote

It’s what happens when transmission requires human to human contact, not airborne.

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Stepjamm t1_ixqhts2 wrote

And the symptoms are much harder to hide or ignore

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mymemesnow t1_ixrobtt wrote

Finally a virus I won’t have to worry about.

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SgtMajMythic t1_ixpydsk wrote

Yeah no. It’s just not that infectious. Has nothing to do with how it’s being handled.

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SgtMajMythic t1_ixrvqjs wrote

Source that there was a chance it could be “entrenched”? It’s not nearly as severe as most STIs though. Symptoms last 2-4 weeks and resolve on their own. This is an overhyped disease because we just had a pandemic and the media is taking advantage of our increased alerted state.

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chemhobby t1_ixv1j4q wrote

it was NOT properly handled in the UK. It's really just luck that the situation now isn't worse.

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O_oh t1_ixoru2m wrote

You can get it from prolonged kissing, oral and vaginal contact as well. Also from touching a monkeypox rash.

It's easily handled because most people are symptomatic and easily spotted. The sudden spread/worry was from the few who were asymptomatic and people not knowing what it was

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OneHumanPeOple t1_ixos0ih wrote

No. It’s spread through close contact or touching objects that a contagious person has touched as well as respiratory droplets, the same way that chicken pox is spread. The reason it has been such a big deal in the gay community and not so much the daycare and elementary school community is simply that it was the community that had an outbreak first and the two groups don’t meet that often. Gay men are also very health conscious and are more likely to seek medical help.

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sushisection t1_ixp7234 wrote

you dont know about all the gay dudes who got vaccinated and effectively halted its spread

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proto-dex t1_ixogmvw wrote

Tbf - a lot was learned from the early days of the pandemic which likely helped contribute a lot to reducing its spread. Combine that with a different primary transmission method and you have a different overall outcome

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imafraidofmuricans t1_ixpxyws wrote

You should remove the roof of your house. It's to keep rain out, but it's never rained on you inside your house so why would you need the roof?

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