UK - Monkeypox 2nd case -

[fansongecho]

Just on the The Independents webpage - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/monkeypox-virus-nigeria-africa-lethal-symptoms-infection-cornwall-blackpool-spreading-a8533116.html

[fansongecho]

Also in the UK - https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/crime/man-arrested-after-petrol-attack-on-banks/ar-BBNbe5m?ocid=spartanntp

Not terror related tho ....   

[The Seeker]

Just on the The Independents webpage - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/monkeypox-virus-nigeria-africa-lethal-symptoms-infection-cornwall-blackpool-spreading-a8533116.html

Monkeypox??? What the hell is that???

[fansongecho]

I don't know, but I don't want it Seeker 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-45459913

It looks like a Nigerian national brought it over ... (reading the article above, Public Health England state that it is a low level threat ..  .. but I know if PHE are involved then it very likely isn't a low level threat - )


*placeholder for Fans' - I will watch for more news like this -*

[The Seeker]

I don't know, but I don't want it Seeker 

No. The articles I just read about it are too vague and ambiguous; it states that it is spread by close personal contact yet the patient is in strict isolation 

It looks like a Nigerian national brought it over ... (reading the article above, Public Health England state that it is a low level threat ..  .. but I know if PHE are involved then it very likely isn't a low level threat - )

Same here with the CDC; if they said it was nothing of concern but had the patient in ISO I would be having serious doubts,too

[fansongecho]

@ Seeker, so about 8 years ago a ex contracted Shigella dysentery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysentery

in Egypt on holiday, which as you will know is a really infectious and debilitating illness, she came home, went to the doctors, they diagnosed the problem and PHE came out to see her the next day and quarantined her in her house for 2 weeks - they got in touch with everyone on the plane, and from the Egypt resort where she picked the bug up from - she was told by PHE that it was a precaution and nothing to worry about - 

I see that PHE have identified a case in Blackpool but no more reports of others, although they are tracing everyone on that flight from Nigeria -


I will keep checking the news reports - 

[The Seeker]

@ Seeker,

I will keep checking the news reports - 

I would 

In this day and time it would be all too easy to start a pandemic by having one contagious person make a long flight to somewhere; and what about all the people at both airports that came into contact with this person? 

keep us updated, Fans'

[fansongecho]

Hhhhhmmmm....

Not much in the UK about this outbreak, in local or national rags' - But this update from the Govt is all there is at the moment, I am going to ring the hospital in Blackpool and see if they have a PR dept that might speak about the case -

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/monkeypox-case-in-england

Cheers,

Fans'

[fansongecho]

A healthcare worker has contracted Monkeypox in the UK - A 3rd case.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45652459

Also at the above link one of the Skripal poisoning suspetcs is a confirmed GRU agent -