Musings on Monkeypox, COVID, and other bugs

[Tom C. Sinclair]

You know what we haven’t heard about in a while? Monkeypox. It just sort of disappeared. I hadn’t been vaccinated against smallpox so I wasn’t immune. I jumped on the monkeypox vaccine wagon as soon as I could though. Glad I did. I support modern medicine. Wonder if you go in if you can get the monkeypox vaccine now as easily as I did. Wonder too what the next hyped up disease will be. That’s why I didn’t take COVID seriously at first when it came on the news. There’s always a scary disease floating about. How are we supposed to know if this one will be a big one. No one saw COVID coming but now because of it every little bug is viewed as a life-altering superkiller. 

[+ SirBillybob]

I think there’s a thread or two on Mpox. 

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

3 hours ago, Tom C. Sinclair said:

You know what we haven’t heard about in a while? Monkeypox. It just sort of disappeared.

There was an uptick in Monkeypox in Montreal, Canada, last month. 

Six new cases of mpox in Quebec: public health warns of a resurgence

MONTREAL.CITYNEWS.CA

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Six new cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, have been identified in Quebec in the past two...

 

 

[+ ApexNomad]

Mods are already putting on their hazmat suits with this thread. Let’s see how long this lasts.

[+ SirBillybob]

2 hours ago, Vegas_Millennial said:

There was an uptick in Monkeypox in Montreal, Canada, last month. 

Six new cases of mpox in Quebec: public health warns of a resurgence

MONTREAL.CITYNEWS.CA

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Six new cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, have been identified in Quebec in the past two...

 

 

Already discussed up forum Men’s Health.

Up for blame are the hen party interlopers at the Village strip clubs.

Edited Wednesday at 06:34 PM by SirBillybob

[+ SirBillybob]

2 hours ago, ApexNomad said:

Mods are already putting on their hazmat suits with this thread. Let’s see how long this lasts.

Ours? … the hazardous materials bespoke fashion “threads” formerly known as hazmat? 

Edited Wednesday at 06:34 PM by SirBillybob

[mike carey]

As others have mentioned, there's been a consistent drum of reports on mpox, in this forum and in the press, in both Canada and Australia that I've seen, it's just not a headline issue any more. Australian health authorities are still saying that it's still a thing and people in the higher risk groups need to be aware of it. My last STI check at the ACT Government sexual health clinic, the doctor raised it and said I should seriously consider the vaccination. Publicity these days is in channels where it will be seen by the people who need to be aware of it, and that's not everyone, it's mostly MSM and their sexual partners.

[+ SirBillybob]

Canada‘s general population Mpox case incidence rate in 2025 so far is 2.2 times that of the United States and reflects about 1 in 13,000 MSM, almost one dot within the attached denominator image.

The difference is statistically significant and likely partly attributable to how case hotspots are distributed. Canada likely has very few transmission clusters geographically whereas in the United States cases are probably more broadly dispersed among a greater number of smaller transmission clusters.

Edited yesterday at 03:35 PM by SirBillybob

[Thomas_Belgium]

On 8/13/2025 at 2:53 PM, Tom C. Sinclair said:

You know what we haven’t heard about in a while? Monkeypox...

 

What news channels do you listen to? Because I read several articles about it this month.

[Tom C. Sinclair]

I don’t pay attention to Canada news (apart from the trade war) and Australia is largely off my radar. My personal experience has been none in the past several months. Anecdotally. That’s all.

Why hazmat suits? What could possibly be controversial here?