Ask HN: Can some doctors here talk about Monkeypox risk and outlook?

Posted by staccatomeasure on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:32PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Reddit was full of great content for covid but it seems empty for Monkeypox info. I can’t tell if pandemic fatigue is leading people to not talk more about this. What’s going on?

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Re:Ask HN: Can some doctors here talk about Monkeypox risk a... by andsoitis on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:51PM (#32364063)

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html

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Re:Ask HN: Can some doctors here talk about Monkeypox risk a... by rdtwo on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:46PM (#32364331)

I think he’s looking for a more trustworthy source.

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Re:Ask HN: Can some doctors here talk about Monkeypox risk a... by mtmail on Friday August 05, 2022 @11:21PM (#32364501)

https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching/videos has updates on monkeypox. He's a registered nurse in the NHS. Since everybody has a bias: he's pro vaccination, pro masks, pro social distancing (when it came to COVID). He usually comments on latest studies and has done so for two years.

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Re:Ask HN: Can some doctors here talk about Monkeypox risk a... by darrrwin on Saturday August 06, 2022 @04:30AM (#32366161)

A doctor told me this: Transfer is through close physical contact. Risk higher for people that have anal sex. It's possible to transfer without sexual contact (injured skin), but sex is the most common.

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Re:Ask HN: Can some doctors here talk about Monkeypox risk a... by h2odragon on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:12AM (#32367016)

Outlook seems to be pretty good; there's apparently very few deaths resulting from this outbreak. I think survivors are likely to have some cross immunity for smallpox.

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