A severe and “horrific” form of mpox has been identified in immunosuppressed people living with HIV, which appears to be deadly in about 15% of cases.
Solid organ transplant recipients, and those with blood cancers, may also be at risk, although no cases have yet been detected in such individuals.
Scientists are calling on people at high risk of HIV to get tested for the virus, along with anyone who tests positive for mpox, which was formerly known as monkeypox.
Those who have suppressed immune systems suffer worse from infections. Oh Aye?
The other point to make is that while there are several forms of suppressed immune system it does appear to be only one of the subgroups that is actually getting this. Wonder if there’s some behavioural component to it, eh?
Wonder if there’s some behavioural component to it, eh?
Suggesting people may bear some responsibility for their own actions? All
rightleft thinking people will shun you immediately!Since May 2022, about 85,000 cases of mpox and 93 deaths have been reported from 110 countries around the world.
Priorities.
Last years news articles about the monkeypox hot spots at certain all-male festivals have been safely memory-holed. For once I doubt if “lessons have been learned”.
mpox, which was formerly known as monkeypox
Because “mpox” sounds so much cooler and more happening than “Monkeypox”.
In healthy people the immune system quickly defeats the virus, with the infection lasting just 2-3 weeks. In the immunocompromised (HIV, transplant patients, newborn babies) the virus stays around longer and has more opportunity to mutate while seeking gaps in the body’s defences. This means the immunocompromised – especially the HIV-positive – are responsible for a disproportionate share of new variants.
The above applies to both Monkeypox and Covid.
Didn’t mpox have a few minor hits in the eighties?
Jimmers
I think”Pox Music” was their biggest hut.
HIV, which was *certain* to kill didn’t stop them. Something with a 1 in 1000 chance to kill them? Hah!!
But yeah.. Imagine applying cause-effect to a lifestyle, especially those that are the special lovechild of certain types of loud, all-pervasive media.
‘because “mpox” sounds so much cooler and more happening than “Monkeypox”.’
Wasn’t the objection to “Monkeypox” that it was racist? I don’t suppose it was the Chinese who objected.
Anyway, how immuno-compromised are the people who have been Pfizered? In the old days time would tell, but now?
Dearieme – Yarp.
The World Health Organization today recommended a new name for monkeypox that is intended to mitigate a rise in related racist and stigmatizing language associated with the ailment
So now we’re supposed to say “mpox”, like a bunch of Scopies.
It wasn’t the fact that they were catching it at all gay orgies that caused the whole MonkeyPox thing to be memory-holed. It was that it was a sexually transmitted disease that suddenly was being caught by animals and children.
Even the hard-of-understanding leftoids couldn’t miss the obvious rationale behind that one.
mPox could be a PG Wodehouse tribute joke. As in his character pSmith.
Wonder if there’s some behavioural component to it, eh?
No no no no no. They were just walking down the street minding their own business when they tripped and fell into a monkey…
“It wasn’t the fact that they were catching it at all gay orgies that caused the whole MonkeyPox thing to be memory-holed. It was that it was a sexually transmitted disease that suddenly was being caught by animals and children.”
No! I missed that….