Caporegime
Depends on your perspective. Also it's a theory, not proven.
Pandemic 2.0?
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Depends on your perspective. Also it's a theory, not proven.
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Well if we are to believe that humans evolved from apes?
Where do all the apes live?
Where do all the apes live?
Man of Honour
We didn't evolve from apes, we had the same ancestor, that's what the unfound missing link is and one of the reasons the Religious say God made man because it hasn't been found..
Caporegime
Many live in Asia.
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And already political correctness has reared its protective head. A new bit of gobbledegook (to me, at least, being outside of homosexual circles) has appeared, no longer are the age old homosexual or gay descriptives acceptable to those that want to blunt the plain speak, we now have "MSM" to cloud already clear descriptives, and like the HIV virus a plea to not associate the spread with those that currently seem the main disseminators of it outside Africa. From, of course, The Guardian:
A week after confirming the first patient, the UKHSA reported two more in a family in London, with no links to the first case. The announcement on Saturday 14 May was “crucial” according to one doctor, because it carried images of monkeypox lesions. These were seen by specialists struggling to diagnose patients with unexplained rashes at sexual health clinics. They immediately sent swabs to Porton Down, which confirmed the cases as monkeypox. On the Monday, the health agency confirmed four more cases, all men who have sex with men and appeared to have caught the virus in London.
The increase in mostly unrelated cases prompted the UK’s chief medical officers to send immediate advice to healthcare workers via the NHS central alerting system. It called on providers to ensure they had sufficient PPE to assess and treat patients and noted that the smallpox vaccine, Imvanex, offered some protection against monkeypox if given soon after exposure. The vaccine is already being offered to healthcare workers and contacts of cases at high risk of infection, and the Department of Health has secured thousands of doses in case the outbreak grows.
The alert put the spotlight on men who have sex with men (MSM), and a flurry of cases have since been confirmed, pointing to spread in sexual networks. While public health experts rush to contain the outbreak, they warn against focusing on any particular group. “This could easily have popped up in a different context,” said one senior specialist in sexual health. “The MSM phenomena may well have been a very quick way to have drawn our attention to there being skin-to-skin transmission in the community.”
Asked why most cases are in men who have sex with men, Sir Ali Zumla, professor of infectious diseases and international health at University College London, urged people to avoid any “prejudicial, unfair and stigmatising” focus on the group. He said clusters of monkeypox could occur in any group in close contact with infected people. It was “highly unlikely” the clusters were due to any change in the virus, he added.
Ali seems semi expert in avoiding answering the clear question, and going off in a none confrontational tangent, maybe he should become a politician?
A week after confirming the first patient, the UKHSA reported two more in a family in London, with no links to the first case. The announcement on Saturday 14 May was “crucial” according to one doctor, because it carried images of monkeypox lesions. These were seen by specialists struggling to diagnose patients with unexplained rashes at sexual health clinics. They immediately sent swabs to Porton Down, which confirmed the cases as monkeypox. On the Monday, the health agency confirmed four more cases, all men who have sex with men and appeared to have caught the virus in London.
The increase in mostly unrelated cases prompted the UK’s chief medical officers to send immediate advice to healthcare workers via the NHS central alerting system. It called on providers to ensure they had sufficient PPE to assess and treat patients and noted that the smallpox vaccine, Imvanex, offered some protection against monkeypox if given soon after exposure. The vaccine is already being offered to healthcare workers and contacts of cases at high risk of infection, and the Department of Health has secured thousands of doses in case the outbreak grows.
The alert put the spotlight on men who have sex with men (MSM), and a flurry of cases have since been confirmed, pointing to spread in sexual networks. While public health experts rush to contain the outbreak, they warn against focusing on any particular group. “This could easily have popped up in a different context,” said one senior specialist in sexual health. “The MSM phenomena may well have been a very quick way to have drawn our attention to there being skin-to-skin transmission in the community.”
Asked why most cases are in men who have sex with men, Sir Ali Zumla, professor of infectious diseases and international health at University College London, urged people to avoid any “prejudicial, unfair and stigmatising” focus on the group. He said clusters of monkeypox could occur in any group in close contact with infected people. It was “highly unlikely” the clusters were due to any change in the virus, he added.
Ali seems semi expert in avoiding answering the clear question, and going off in a none confrontational tangent, maybe he should become a politician?
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Stay safe Chris.
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Only because they either don't understand evolution or are lying. There's no "missing link" and never was. It wasn't as simple as a 3 step process (ape to missing link to human). It was a hodge-podge of trails of differences. Some minor, some less minor, some leading to further differences, some dying out, some doing both. There's even some scope for debate about whether some species count as people or not because evolution is rarely a matter of simple discrete points. Homo Habilis is the example that I was thinking of. Classed as people (homo in this context being the Latin for "person") but there's scope for debate as to whether that species should be classed that way.
Or it could be said that humans are apes. It depends on where people choose to draw the lines when putting things into discrete categories we made up. It's sometimes useful to do so, but it's almost always a simplification of reality.
I've yet to see anything good come out of Africa, save an international flight home if you are someone unfortunate enough to have had to go thereIt's the Petri dish for all things unwanted.
Do a lot of work in South Africa... its a belting place I always have a top time there
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My post assumed a clear definition between Africa and the relatively tiny sub continent of South Africa. Fortunately the influences and friends of the likes of the late Ian Douglas Smith remain to some (sadly diluted) effect in SA.
I've yet to see anything good come out of Africa, save an international flight home if you are someone unfortunate enough to have had to go there
I'm from Africa and I'm amazing.
Don
Sounds like it’s less like masks and more like condoms you need to slap on.Get your masks at the ready guys!
In Bill We Trust!
Soldato
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Get your masks at the ready guys!
In Bill We Trust!
It's a fact, Bill Gates owns all Johnny factories in the entire World.
I've heard it's all a plan to generate clean energy utilising tiny electronics embedded in the rubber to harness the "motion of the ocean" and send the generated electricity to where it's needed via nano-wave energy. Bill is such a genius.
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Monkeypox outbreak: WHO working on sexual contact theory, top adviser says
David Heymann says experts developing guidance for countries, as New York City resident tests positive for Orthopoxvirus
www.theguardian.com
It's certainly starting to get around abit
From an actual doctor then - should we be worried?
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All men?