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j.o.e wrote:All males with recent travel history. Rainbow crew coming back from Pride celebrations
The point is the scare mongering...paid_influencer wrote:maybe they should give us a weekly report to avoid the press release scaremongering. lump it in there with the syphilis cases. I hear that syphilis rising too
K74T wrote:4th case..
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MaxPower wrote:I dunno whats more disgusting.
Monkeypox or a Covid cough
What do you mean by "other"? What country are you posting from? You believe that Trinidad is on lockdown?aaron17 wrote:Sooo what other countries on lockdwon at the moment? Or is jus districts?
aaron17 wrote:Sooo what other countries on lockdwon at the moment? Or is jus districts?
On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned of a deadlier version of mpox that is ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo and urged people at risk to be vaccinated as soon as possible. No cases of that subtype have been identified outside Africa so far. But the escalating epidemic in Congo nevertheless poses a global threat, just as infections in Nigeria set off the 2022 outbreak, experts said.
Adult cases in Congo have likewise been attributed to interactions with infected animals or close, sustained contact with infected people. But last year, for the first time, scientists discovered sexual transmission of Clade I mpox among male and female sex workers and their contacts.
In one outbreak in Kamituga, a mining town in Congo, heterosexual prostitution in bars appeared to be the main form of transmission. Genetic analysis showed that, sometime around September, the virus gained mutations, enabling it to spread more readily among people.
This chain of transmission appears to be a second, distinct outbreak in the country, caused by a new version of the virus called Clade Ib, with cases split about equally among young men and women, said Marion Koopmans, a virologist at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
WHO declares Mpox global health emergency
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the mpox outbreak in parts of Africa a public health emergency of international concern.
The highly contagious disease - formerly known as monkeypox - has killed at least 450 people during an initial outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It has now spread across parts of central and east Africa, and scientists are concerned about how fast a new variant of the disease is spreading and its high fatality rate.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the potential for further spread within Africa and beyond "is very worrying".
"A co-ordinated international response is essential to stop this outbreak and save lives," he said.
Mpox is transmitted through close contact, such as sex, skin-to-skin contact and talking or breathing close to another person.
It causes flu-like symptoms, skin lesions and can be fatal, with four in 100 cases leading to death.
Two main strains of the virus have been circulating.
While Clade I is endemic in central Africa, Clade Ib is a new, more virulent form of the virus, which one scientist has described as the "most dangerous yet".
It is this new strain that is largely behind the WHO's declaration of a public health emergency of international concern.
Since the start of the year, there have been more than 13,700 cases of the disease in the DR Congo, with at least 450 deaths.
It has since been detected in other African countries - including Burundi, the Central African Republic, Kenya and Rwanda.
It is hoped the declaration of mpox as a public health emergency will lead to research, funding, and the introduction of other international public health measures being accelerated.
Dr Josie Golding, from the Wellcome Trust, said it was a "strong signal", while Emory University's Dr Boghuma Titanji said the move "underscores the gravity of the crisis".
Prof Trudie Lang, the director of the Global Health Network at the University of Oxford, said it was "important and timely", but added that the emergence of a new strain meant there were "many unknowns that need to be addressed".
It's not the first time that the WHO has declared a public health emergency over an mpox outbreak. In July 2022 a milder strain, called Clade II, spread to nearly 100 countries, including some in Europe and Asia.
It spread rapidly, and there were more than 87,000 cases and 140 deaths reported during that outbreak, according to a WHO count.
Although anyone can catch monkeypox, the outbreak was largely concentrated among men who had sex with men.
That outbreak was brought under control by vaccinating vulnerable groups.
On Tuesday, scientists from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention declared a public health emergency.
The head of the organisation, Jean Kaseya, warned that the disease could spiral out of control if immediate steps were not taken to contain it.
"We must be proactive and aggressive in our efforts to contain and eliminate this threat," he said.
DMan7 wrote:I think Diabetes and Hypertension should be declared a Health Emergency before anything else.
Yes cause most Trinidadians are lazy and ignorant on health issuesDMan7 wrote:I think Diabetes and Hypertension should be declared a Health Emergency before anything else.
Rowley declared crime a health emergency ...redmanjp wrote:DMan7 wrote:I think Diabetes and Hypertension should be declared a Health Emergency before anything else.
if there's a virus that could cause that then yes
zoom rader wrote:Yes cause most Trinidadians are lazy and ignorant on health issuesDMan7 wrote:I think Diabetes and Hypertension should be declared a Health Emergency before anything else.
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