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Monkeypox update 21 June 2022. Non-reporting atm.
Looking at the world data you would be excused to think that the monkeypox virus #3MXP was under control, but looking at individual countries you can see that most countries are not reporting data (“doing a McGowan”). There is no way they could all have had no new cases for 3 to 4 days at…
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Masters of War
The title of one of Bob Dylan’s songs from 1963. Such an insightful young man to have written this at 21 years of age. Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the big bombsYou that hide behind wallsYou that hide behind desksI just want you…
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How monkeypox could have mutated so much. Did a human defence mechanism against viruses help generate it?
Lots of scientist have recently been suggesting that monkeypox may have been circulating in the community since 2017, but this fails to address the question as to why so many mutations have taken place, when it generally mutates on average only once a year. Monkeypox mutates less than SARS2-CoV2 because it is a DNA virus…
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The WHO is still playing monkeypox down. Why?
I am concerned that the World Health Organisation is not taking monkeypox more seriously. It says Monkeypox won’t turn into a pandemic, but in other hand it poses a moderate risk to the world. Meanwhile the UK has confirmed another 71 cases bringing its total to 172. The numbers to me are alarming. I have…
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Number of enumerated Omicron subvariants now 119
That is where people have got to in updating the number of Omicron variants anyhow. There are more likely 300 to 400 of them, but the number of variants are going too fast to keep track of of all of them. Variants like B.2.23 and BA.2.33 had been seen in Australia and the USA but…
Dr George Christos
covid19 & other Infectious diseases