Two more people have been diagnosed with monkeypox in England, the UK Health Security Agency said. Monkeypox is a rare viral infection, Public Health England said. It does not spread easily and most patients recover within a few weeks.
Dr Deepti Gurdasani and Prof Kit Yates from the iSAGE scientific body have demanded an immediate hard lockdown. “Boris must act now to eradicate monkeypox forever,” Gurdasani said. “Time is of the essence,” Yates concurred.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-61449214
Monkeypox is a rare viral infection, Public Health England said. It does not spread easily and most patients recover within a few weeks.
Sounds rubbish.
Should be renamed SlothLurgy.
It certainly deserves a more suitably dramatic name than monkey pox.
I'd say a barely infectious, non-fatal disease deserves a much less dramatic name, like Puffin Inconvience.
Gerbil Annoyance.
Koala tutting.
A pox manqué.
You people are being heedlessly insensitive about this ghastly new foreign health scare. It looks quite dramatic, and I think it should be called grandpox.
Terrapin bumpiness.
Hamster Niggle
When I first read this, I thought it was Green Monkey Disease, and I panicked a little.
Aye, me too. That’s close to Ebola.
ReverendBlueJeans - about 12 hours ago (# 9371 of 9386)
Just no one start a Monkey Pox! We're All Going to Die! thread.
https://beta.justthetalk.com/uknews/51615/corona-xiii-beyond-the-boosterdome/9371
*tuts at TVOR*
Evidently a couple of cases at a care home down the road from here, two of the old gentlemen had caught a dose of pox from one of the cleaning ladies. Not sure if it was monkey pox though.
Monkey business, was it?