Monkey-Pox Another Sign of the End Times?
Stove
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More disease? Is the earth fighting back to eradicate us?
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I just don’t think monkeypox is one
something is getting us at some point. If not that, the sun will eventually
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Right on, Stove. Not that there isn't a time for being concerned and a time for action, but there's also a time to party on so...
Among other causes, as long as people move around the world widely and frequently, disease will spread.
the more we mow down the natural world, the more bullshit we'll uncover. at some point we'll uncover some super strong resistant nastiness that wipes a lot of us out. (or climate change will thaw something deep in the ice and release it)
-EV 8/14/93
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New Langya virus that may have spilled over from animals infects dozens
An international team of scientists identified a new virus that was likely to have been transmitted to humans after it first infected animals, in another potential zoonotic spillover less than three years into the coronavirus pandemic.
A peer-reviewed study published in the New England Journal of Medicine detailed the discovery of the Langya virus after it was observed in 35 patient samples collected in two eastern Chinese provinces. The researchers — based in China, Singapore and Australia — did not find evidence that the virus transmitted between people, citing in part the small sample size available. But they hypothesized that shrews, small mammals that subsist on insects, could have hosted the virus before it infected humans.
The first Langya virus sample was detected in late 2018 from a farmer in Shandong province who sought treatment for a fever. Over a roughly two-year period, 34 other people were found to have been infected in Shandong and neighboring Henan, with the vast majority being farmers.
Genetic sequencing of the virus subsequently showed that the pathogen is part of the henipavirus family, which has five other known viruses. Two are considered highly virulent and are associated with high case-fatality ratios, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But none of the Langya patients died, the study stated.
The next pandemic is already coming, unless humans change how we interact with wildlife, scientists say
Among the 35 patients, 26 were found to be infected only with the Langya virus. All of the 26 had a fever, with around half showing fatigue, decreased white blood cell count and cough. More severe symptoms include impaired kidney and liver functions.
Researchers also tested 25 small wild animal species for the Langya virus. Its genetic material was “predominantly detected” in shrews, leading the team to suggest the small mammals are a “natural reservoir” for the virus.
Disease surveillance did not indicate sources of exposure common among those infected, nor did they come into close contact with one another, suggesting that human infection may have occurred in a “sporadic” fashion, the researchers wrote.
Francois Balloux, a computational systems biology professor at University College London who was not involved with the study, said the Langya virus does not appear to “look like a repeat of Covid-19 at all.” He noted on Twitter that the new virus is far less lethal than other henipaviruses and “probably doesn’t transmit easily from human to human.”.
But this discovery serves as “yet another reminder of the looming threat caused by the many pathogens circulating in populations of wild and domestic animals that have the potential to infect humans,” Balloux added.
Viruses that spill over from animals to humans are not uncommon. Some 70 percent of emerging infectious diseases in humans are of zoonotic origin, scientists say, and nearly 1.7 million undiscovered viruses may exist in mammals and birds. The Hendra and Nipah viruses, two henipaviruses with high mortality rates, can be contracted through close contact with sick horses, pigs and bats.
Scientists who study zoonotic diseases had warned even before the coronavirus pandemic that practices such as unregulated wildlife trade, deforestation and urbanization have brought people closer to animals, thereby increasing the odds of viral spillovers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/10/langya-virus-china-shrews-henipavirus/
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at least they have moved on from attacking Asians
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/who-warns-do-not-attack-monkeys-monkeypox-rcna42433
Is antimicrobial resistance related to our over-use of antibiotics? That latter issue was talked about a fair amount some time back but I have not heard much about it lately. Still an issue though, I believe.
yes, it is still an issue, although I think the medical community has been scaling back the knee jerk prescribing of antibioticis as a result. wish my idiot GP would get that message. I think a lot of doctors are still like that, unfortunately. "here, take some antibiotics while we wait your test results". um, no.
-EV 8/14/93
based on experience in the UK no one ever got antibiotics for pretty much anything the entire time we were living there. Not because of cost but because a cold is a virus. It actually took a while to get use to. Walking into a doctors office (surgery as they say) and hearing “there isn’t a medicine for this” or hearing “if your sinus infection doesn’t clear up on it’s own, then come back”
american doctors hand out antibiotics for everything because that’s the expectation we’ve set. Go in with a viral infection and walk out with amoxicillin more often than not. It happens a lot
I kind of thought that was the case. I was given antibiotics several times when I was a teenager. The dermatologist said it would cure my acne. Looking back on it, I think I was being used as a guinea pig. It's no wonder I have had a number of health problems over the years. A bit surprising, even, that I'm still kicking. Probably because I haven't taken any antibiotics in the last 20 years or so. Damn all doctors who use their patients to test their theories or ideas based on hunches.
-EV 8/14/93
Yeah, could be right. I guess as a teenager I subscribed a bit too easily to that 60's notion of "Don't trust anyone over 30". And then I was 30.
I eventually solved the problem on my own- without antibiotics!- doing my own research. It's not that I don't trust all doctors or the medical field, but while working as a volunteer for 1,000 hours at our local Health Library (overseen by our local Marshall Hospital) one of the things I learned was the wisdom of self advocacy, doing some research on one's health issues, being open to complimentary therapies, and having a healthy skepticism regarding a single prognosis.