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Those who have contracted monkeypox can spread the disease 4 days  or more before they themselves have any symptoms..  Even worse, our existing vaccines fail to cover developing variants.

 

Investigators at the UK Health Security agency studied data from 2746 persons, mean age 38 years, 95% males, who tested monkeypox positive.  Fifty-three percent of the person-to-person transmission occurred before the disease “donor” had any symptoms.  Careful study of 13 pairs of victims revealed that 77% had pre-symptomatic transmission anywhere from 4 to 9 days.

 

University of Missouri researchers report that the rapidly spreading and mutating monkeypox virus has developed mutations that specifically modify the binding sites targeted by therapeutic antibodies or the vaccines that produce them.  They fear that the virus is becoming strategically more capable of evading existing measures to control it.

 

Bottom line: stop the spread of virus by a rigorous adherence to isolation of exposed individuals and safe sexual practices.

 

https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-073153

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896841122001366?via%3Dihub

 

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