https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/monkeypox-possibly-spread-in-europe-at-large-dance-parties/6586045.html

Personally, I would avoid events of this kind.

If we turn monkey pox into hysteria as we did with COVID then we are really monkeys.

It's not the new covid, its the new AIDS, aka 'gay plague'. We old fogeys who have had the smallpox vaccine have nothing to worry about even if we enjoy our orgies still, and of course milkmaids will have had cowpox so they'll be fine too. A plague of boils to the rest of you though.

It's a nice one for the newspapers for a week or two, but other than that it's a big zero

See Warren Zevon, Monkey Wash, Donkey Rinse, or rather hear it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O2S1pH1bOo

It even has "monkey" in it.

Personally, I would avoid events of this kind. — Wayfarer

Not a problem. At my age, such events avoid me.

It's not the new covid, its the new AIDS, aka 'gay plague'. — unenlightened

It's not even the new AIDS, because there's already a vaccine for it.

It never rains but it pours!

As if we don't have enough problems already (we're just emerging, bruised and battered, out of a deadly case of Covid-19), an infernal Monkey Pox outbreak that has pandemic potential!

How do we handle this? We have to break the transmission chain before it goes global, oui? Who's looking into that?

It usually requires close physical contact; which seems an unlikely vector of infection given the geography, and so the most likely common factor is the Covid vaccine based on simian disease. — karl stone

We either don't know enough about the virus or we know very little about ourselves. Either way, we're screwed!

Let's wait & watch as the situation evolves, but this time we definitely have no excuses if Monkey Pox snowballs into a global pandemic.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me! — George Bush

:snicker:

Here is a more recent test experiment that just might be connected.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(22)00027-1/fulltext

Hopefully, some urgent contact tracing is being done.

I don't know what any of that means!!!

I'm in the same boat. But It is a test with an 'attenuated' live virus that is of the monkey pox family at least, and recent enough to have a connection with this outbreak. I think.

@Frank might be able to put us straight?

I wonder whether the record will ever be set straight...

I hope to one day have a designer pox. I had thought there were only chickenpox, but then I learn of monkeypox. I've been rolling around in rabbit pellets trying to get rabbitpox and have gotten unusually close to my goats in an effort to get goatpox.

Spellcheck has confirmed the following are actually words: rabbitpox, cowpox, and horsepox. However, goatpox, raccoonpox, and platypuspox are not words, but I still one day hope to contract them.

Goat pox is a thing, only it’s not conventionally a single word.

If my memory serves me right, sources of the virus include cutaneous lesions, saliva, nasal secretions and faeces, and is most likely to occur in crowded stock.

It's like Magma Energy - proven by NASA in 1982, a source of limitless clean energy — karl stone

Dig, and dig deep! :up:

I hope to one day have a designer pox. — Hanover

An old story! Biological weapons: enhanced transmission, lethality, and drug resistance! I think, not a 100% sure! Sorry if that's an issue.

If my memory serves me right, sources of the virus include cutaneous lesions, saliva, nasal secretions and faeces, and is most likely to occur in crowded stock. — Jamal

As you can imagine, I spend most my days interacting with the fluids you've described above, with only my peanut butter and jelly sandwich available to wipe off my hands.

I once got smallpox from Biggie Smalls.

I guess you’re lucky he didn’t give you bigpox.

The only difference between Covid and Monkeypox is that we have a vaccine that works for the latter (Smallpox vaccine; efficacy 85%, not bad, oui?). Killing two birds with one stone! Way to go, human race!

The only difference between Covid and Monkeypox is that we have a vaccine that works for the latter (Smallpox vaccine; efficacy 85%, not bad, oui?). — Agent Smith

I still believe we must stay vigilent in preventing the outbreak of rabbititis.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-nzeyWrPamg

Rabbititis :snicker: