Monkeypox (MPox) has slowly crept up in the news as more cases are found outside the endemic zone. The current subtype (Clade 1) is 10x more deadly than Clade 2. Please, make sure to keep yourself informed of the current situation. This reminds me a lot of HIV when it first started out in Africa but it was initially ignored because it only affected homosexual men. #zoonotic, #health #disease https://www.wired.com/story/mpox-outbreak-global-public-health-emergency/
@Victor Or in the United States where they ignored it because it happened to homosexual men.
Let's not dump all that shit just on Africa, when supposedly modern and civilized nations like the US did the exact same bullshit.
@AskTheDevil Africa was well aware of HIV as well as MonkeyPox. WHO and US CDC were aware but it did not deem them as something that would have any effect outside of Africa until it did. Practical disease control is to do it at the source so it does not get out of control. So yes, US was and continues to deem these diseases as unimportant. Climate change is bringing some of these diseases to US doorstep sooner than expected so Africa and other areas need assistance to stop them.