Monkeypox

Monkeypox is a rare infection with symptoms often confused with chickenpox. The illness is usually mild and most people recover within a few weeks without treatment.

Although you can catch it from close contact with infected people and animals, so far the recent cases have been primarily transmitted by gay and bisexual men who appear to have contracted the virus through sexual activity.

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What’s So Special About Monkeypox? – The Daily Sceptic

The NHS has started warning people to take extra precautions, a degree of fear and concern is undeniably being created. Yet, monkeypox seems to be a not especially contagious viral infection that isn’t particularly dangerous.

Something that became all too apparent during the Covid panic was the failure of either the general population or most of the media to put things in context. We’re seeing the same again with the monkeypox scare. The Spectator published this table on May 23rd showing that in this recent scare there have been to date 56 cases of monkeypox in England and 170 worldwide.

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/24/whats-so-special-about-monkeypox/

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Monkeypox – NHS

Monkeypox is a rare infection that’s mainly spread by wild animals in parts of west or central Africa. The risk of catching it in the UK is low.

Treatment for monkeypox aims to relieve symptoms. The illness is usually mild and most people recover in 2 to 4 weeks.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220527074847/https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/monkeypox/