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Alain Jocard, Pool via AP Back at the end of January 2020, I wrote “ The Great Pestilence Panic of 2020 ,” PJ Media’s first article on the newly identified Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), or what we now know as SARS-CoV-19, COVID-1, or just Covid.
Much has happened since then, with massive (and ineffective) lockdowns, mask mandates, and excessive estimates of impending mortality — I’m sure you all remember. Now we have a new pestilence panic over an outbreak of monkeypox. So what are the facts about monkeypox? This is monkeypox
This guy, Silver Steele, has recorded the whole course of his own monkeypox case, which lasted pretty much the average time.
Looks pretty unpleasant, doesn’t it? My understanding is that it is very unpleasant. If you take nothing else away from this article, take this advice: don’t rub anything against someone with lesions like this until they feel better. So what is monkeypox?
Monkeypox is a virus (family Poxviridae ) in the genus orthopoxvirus . Now, fair warning: I’m going to abuse the terminology to the extent of calling the genus a “family” because it’s a common-language way to refer to a collection of close relatives, even if Linnaeus wouldn’t approve.
Monkeypox is a zoonotic virus — humans get it from an animal reservoir. You might have guessed that from the name, but surprisingly monkeys are probably not its primary animal host; that’s probably small mammals like African dormice.
Monkeypox is related to a number of other viruses: cowpox, horsepox, vaccinia, and varicella. Vaccinia is the virus from which the smallpox vaccine is made. Varicella is smallpox.
This family of viruses has an interesting — and very convenient — property: if you’re immune to any of these viruses, you’re going to be more or less immune to all of them. We need to be […]
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