Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "CDC issues new monkeypox warning as more potential cases found" video.

  1. But people who have monkeypox infections have clear signs of the disease, when contagious. If you see someone with large, nasty pustules, stay clear of them.
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  2.  @rookerycephapirin9980  Covid-19 incubation period is 2 to 6 days, with most between 3 and 5 days. Monkeypox incubation period is 5 -21 days, mostly 7 -14. NOT THE SAME!
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  3. If you were vaccinated against smallpox, you are immune to monkeypox as well.
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  4.  @javionriley8739 Monkeypox is not respiratory, nor is it usually spread in airborne droplets. It usually is spread by contact with pustules, or the fluid from pustules. So don't touch someone's nasty blister, and wash your hands.
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  5. It takes a few days to run a PCR test. And that is how monkeypox is confirmed.
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  6. If you're afraid, get a smallpox vaccine. It stops monkeypox. If you were born in the US, before 1972, you're already immune.
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  7. @misevaluate Actually, being vaccinated against smallpox protects you from all poxviruses, including monkeypox.
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  8. Stupid quote, when you realize that plague is caused by a bacteria, Yersinia pestis, and monkeypox is a virus.
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  9. First discovered in a colony of monkeys, imported from Africa, in Europe, in the late 1950s. That was long before we knew how to edit genes or transfect anything.
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  10.  @countblackula4401  No, it can be contracted from sex. It can also be contracted by touching the pustule, or any of the fluid from the pustule. Poxvirus is quite hardy, so also can be contracted from fomites. (Yes, you can get it from a toilet seat. But, that is rare.)
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  11.  @Jewel_Screaming_Chango8387  No, sorry. But HIV is spread through blood to blood contact. All you need to transmit poxvirus is physical contact, it can be sexual or nonsexual, with a pustule or its fluid. This current outbreak may be mostly in gay people, but plenty of previous outbreaks were not.
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  12. Do you understand that the reason Covid-19 was impossible to control, using normal public health measures, is it is spread by pre-symptomatic individuals? With most infectious diseases, the infected feels symptoms, or sees signs of the disease, by the time they are infectious. That makes isolation of the ill easier. But, with Covid-19, people were merrily spreading the virus, long before the first symptom. Monkeypox has rather obvious pustules, as well as fever and rash. You know you are sick by the time you're infectious. Monkeypox is seldom fatal, does not cause disability, is prevented by smallpox vaccination, and can be treated with antivirals.
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