Is monkeypox fatal?

The less severe West African clade is causing the current world outbreak (2022). No one has died from this outbreak to date. But, monkeypox can lead to other problems (complications) like pneumonia and infections in your brain (encephalitis) or eyes, which can be fatal.

How do you prevent monkeypox virus?

A smallpox vaccine provides protection against monkeypox, but its use is currently limited to clinical trials. Prevention depends on decreasing human contact with infected animals and limiting person-to-person spread.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22371-monkeypox

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Anonymous wrote:All of this begs the question. If you can die from it and smallpox vaccine is effective against it, why are they not restarting production and vaccination? I am enough to have been vaccinated against smallpox but my kids aren’t and I’d get them vaccinated in a heartbeat. Certainly better than doing insane quarantine carousel again.

How old are you to where you are old enough to have had the smallpox vaccine AND have kids under 18? Didn’t they stop vaccinating for smallpox in like 1970?

I am not from the US but one of the former Soviet republics where they vaccinated into the late 1970s. I have the scar on my arm and everything. But also, some parents at my kids’ school are significantly older than I am. Someone born in 1972 would be 50 today - why can’t they have a 16 year old?

Today is not my day. Forgot to add I picked 1972 because it was the last year US vaccinated for smallpox apparently.

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Anonymous wrote:All of this begs the question. If you can die from it and smallpox vaccine is effective against it, why are they not restarting production and vaccination? I am enough to have been vaccinated against smallpox but my kids aren’t and I’d get them vaccinated in a heartbeat. Certainly better than doing insane quarantine carousel again.

How old are you to where you are old enough to have had the smallpox vaccine AND have kids under 18? Didn’t they stop vaccinating for smallpox in like 1970?

I am not from the US but one of the former Soviet republics where they vaccinated into the late 1970s. I have the scar on my arm and everything. But also, some parents at my kids’ school are significantly older than I am. Someone born in 1972 would be 50 today - why can’t they have a 16 year old?

Anonymous wrote:All of this begs the question. If you can die from it and smallpox vaccine is effective against it, why are they not restarting production and vaccination? I am enough to have been vaccinated against smallpox but my kids aren’t and I’d get them vaccinated in a heartbeat. Certainly better than doing insane quarantine carousel again.

How old are you to where you are old enough to have had the smallpox vaccine AND have kids under 18? Didn’t they stop vaccinating for smallpox in like 1970?

Anonymous wrote:All of this begs the question. If you can die from it and smallpox vaccine is effective against it, why are they not restarting production and vaccination? I am enough to have been vaccinated against smallpox but my kids aren’t and I’d get them vaccinated in a heartbeat. Certainly better than doing insane quarantine carousel again.

Yes, that's in the works. They need to make the vaccines.

Anonymous wrote:All of this begs the question. If you can die from it and smallpox vaccine is effective against it, why are they not restarting production and vaccination? I am enough to have been vaccinated against smallpox but my kids aren’t and I’d get them vaccinated in a heartbeat. Certainly better than doing insane quarantine carousel again.

Meant to say “old enough.”

But yeah just restart the vaccination and we are done. It’s not even an experimental vaccine and we have the formula and equipment for it!

All of this begs the question. If you can die from it and smallpox vaccine is effective against it, why are they not restarting production and vaccination? I am enough to have been vaccinated against smallpox but my kids aren’t and I’d get them vaccinated in a heartbeat. Certainly better than doing insane quarantine carousel again.

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Anonymous wrote:That study analyzes cases 30-50 years old. This is a different strain, and medicine has advanced a bit.

The person who died in Brazil had cancer and was HIV+. Undoubtedly, there will some other hook factor like this with the two young Spaniards who died.

You're basically telling us that the 31 year old and the 40 (41?2?) year old Spaniards died of encephalitis with monkeypox, not of encephalitis from monkeypox? And our children will be just fine because our healthcare is better than Spain's?

I’m saying those Spaniards might have been HIV+ (apparently 41% of the people with monkey pox are HIV+) and that would have played a role in the fatal outcome.

Not sure where you came up with your last line. I was discussing the article posted previously…but, sure, US health care today is better than African healthcare 50 years ago.

You can pretty much die from anything, but you probably won’t so chill out.

Some useful info on monkeypox: http://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2022/07/12/ep-100-monkeypox-here-we-go-again/

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Anonymous wrote:That study analyzes cases 30-50 years old. This is a different strain, and medicine has advanced a bit.

The person who died in Brazil had cancer and was HIV+. Undoubtedly, there will some other hook factor like this with the two young Spaniards who died.

You're basically telling us that the 31 year old and the 40 (41?2?) year old Spaniards died of encephalitis with monkeypox, not of encephalitis from monkeypox? And our children will be just fine because our healthcare is better than Spain's?

I am only judging by DCUM thread titles, but -- there is encephalitis going around in the gay community, and now monkey pox. So they seem to be independent and someone got both.

Wow, so you ARE saying encephalitis WITH monkeypox!

DP: viruses are the leading cause of encephalitis. I and my child both had encephalitis from the chicken pox virus. Other viruses associated with encephalitis include
enteroviruses – such as coxsackievirus, poliovirus and echovirus
herpes simplex virus
varicella zoster virus (chickenpox/shingles)
Epstein-Barr virus
cytomegalovirus
adenovirus
rubella
measles
etc., etc., etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the mortality rate believed to be around 1%? That's pretty high!

Yes. Cases are going up and no one thought to mention you can die from this virus until now.

I've known about it for months and I'm no health expert it's been in the news all along.

Same. The first time I ever heard of monkeypox, I heard you could die from it.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the mortality rate believed to be around 1%? That's pretty high!

The most recent study saw a mortality for this clade of a little over 3%. However, it is higher in children and immunocompromised persons.

NYT Spelling Bee enthusiasts, take note.

Yes! Definitely did not have that one yet. Thanks.

It was the only one I couldn’t get this morning. Never heard the word in my life, and then open this thread and here it was. Weird!

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Anonymous wrote:That study analyzes cases 30-50 years old. This is a different strain, and medicine has advanced a bit.

The person who died in Brazil had cancer and was HIV+. Undoubtedly, there will some other hook factor like this with the two young Spaniards who died.

You're basically telling us that the 31 year old and the 40 (41?2?) year old Spaniards died of encephalitis with monkeypox, not of encephalitis from monkeypox? And our children will be just fine because our healthcare is better than Spain's?

I am only judging by DCUM thread titles, but -- there is encephalitis going around in the gay community, and now monkey pox. So they seem to be independent and someone got both.

Wow, so you ARE saying encephalitis WITH monkeypox!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That study analyzes cases 30-50 years old. This is a different strain, and medicine has advanced a bit.

The person who died in Brazil had cancer and was HIV+. Undoubtedly, there will some other hook factor like this with the two young Spaniards who died.

You're basically telling us that the 31 year old and the 40 (41?2?) year old Spaniards died of encephalitis with monkeypox, not of encephalitis from monkeypox? And our children will be just fine because our healthcare is better than Spain's?

I am only judging by DCUM thread titles, but -- there is encephalitis going around in the gay community, and now monkey pox. So they seem to be independent and someone got both.