Saturday, 21 May 2022

Monkeypox Not A Gay Virus

Covid hasn't even left the building and we are into the next potential pandemic with Monkeypox now being talked about with 11 countries confirming cases and 20 detected in the UK.
Monkeypox can be spread when someone is in close contact with an infected person and the virus can enter the body through broken skin, or through the eyes, nose or mouth which doesn't necessarily lend itself to being a sexually transmitted infection but in a chilling throwback to the 80s and AID's, it is being reported that the cases in the UK are amongst the gay or bisexual community and the UK Health Security Agency has issued a warning to to encourage men who have sex with men to be aware of any unusual rashes or lesions.
Obviously the hard of thinking will use this as an excuse to bash homosexuals as they did with AID's because they don't need much of an excuse and their ignorance will make sure that they just hear that homosexuals are currently the affected group.
The good news is that the smallpox vaccine offers good protection against the virus as the two viruses are similar and the monkeypox variant is generally mild with fever, headache, muscle aches, backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion with a rash that often begins on the face before spreading to other parts of the body.
After 11 new cases were announced on Friday, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said that the UK was stocking up on smallpox vaccine doses and the World Health Organization is convening an emergency meeting with experts about the spread of the virus so hopefully the lessons have been learned from the pandemic were have just gone through and nations this time listen to the medical experts and act on their advice before things get out of control and just for those doltish Trump supporting Americans, put the bleach down, it won't help.

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