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Originally Posted by Pierre
It’s not and no one has ever claimed that.
It seems to have come from Africa and spread at a couple of raves in Europe, mainly amongst gay men.
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So Mick didn't post this in post#15?
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Monkeypox is very difficult to catch from someone carrying the infection and is mostly caught from infected wild animals in west of central Africa.
The illness for most people is mild with full recovery taking up to four weeks, while the chance of catching it in the UK is currently very low.
According to the NHS, you can catch monkeypox if you are bitten by an infected animal or if you touch its blood, body fluids, spots, blisters or scabs.
Catching it from an infected person is very uncommon, but transmission is possible through touching clothing, bedding, towels or other items used by someone with the rash.
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If catching from someone is difficult, just think what the number of current cases would be, if it wasn't difficult to catch. If eg only 1 in 100 people pass it on(I don't know the real figure, perhaps nobody does), and 90 cases are in the UK, then that would suggest around 9,000 cases already out there. If instead, the 90 all knew each other, it should take a large number of "interactions" for that number of people to become infected from one another.
Perhaps there is a previously unidentified method of transmission that
isn't very difficult.