Dr George Christos

covid19 & other Infectious diseases

Tag: fever

  • First deaths from monkeypox reported. 5 dead ??

    First deaths from monkeypox reported. 5 dead ??

    While the numbers of monkeypox infections have been growing steadily, their doubling time has extended a bit too. It doubles every 12 days or so now. When it first appeared in was doubling every 3 or 4 days but quarantine, isolation, knowledge about spread and symptoms, and use of some drugs has slowed it down.…

  • Monkeypox. We need to act now. #STOPTRAVEL.

    Monkeypox. We need to act now. #STOPTRAVEL.

    We learnt nothing from Covid and Wuhan. Zip. Zero. Niente. Nothing. Monkeypox has spread to 12-13 countries and 4 continents already in one week. We need to #stoptravel immediately, and do extensive contact tracing right now. Not wait until this gets out of hand. We have to be proactive as soon as possible. Why are…