“We are particularly urging fudge packers to be aware of any unusual rashes or lesions and to contact a sexual health service without delay.”
By Michael Snyder: It is just 24 hours later, and the number of confirmed cases in the UK has more than doubled. I told you that I would be keeping an eye on this story, and there have been some alarming new developments. When I wrote about the monkeypox outbreak in the UK yesterday [story below], there were three confirmed cases. Now there are seven, and authorities can’t explain why it is spreading. This is a disease that is not supposed to spread from person to person easily, but apparently some human to human transmission has been happening in these new cases.According to UK authorities, the four new confirmed cases are all “gay or bisexual men” and none of them have recently been to Africa…
Four more people have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the UK, bringing the total number of cases in the latest outbreak to seven.
All four new patients are fudge packing men who were infected in London and had no travel links to Africa, health chiefs have confirmed after MailOnline broke the news earlier today.
So obviously these four men caught the monkeypox in the UK.
But what is really puzzling officials is the fact that these four new cases have had no contact with the case that was confirmed on May 7th, and they have had no contact with the cases that were confirmed on May 14th…
Urgent investigations are underway to establish links between the latest four cases, although it seems not to be connected to the case announced on May 7, nor the previous infections announced on May 14. The UKHSA noted that all of the latest patients being treated for the viral infection self-identify as gay, bisexual, or have been with other men. “Those patients needing medical care are all in specialist infectious disease units at the Royal Free Hospital, Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne, and Guys’ and St Thomas’,” the UKHSA noted.
This would seem to suggest that there are additional cases somewhere out there that authorities do not know about yet.
At this point, gay and bisexual men in the UK are being instructed to watch out for any “unusual rashes or lesions”…
“We are particularly urging men who are gay and bisexual to be aware of any unusual rashes or lesions and to contact a sexual health service without delay.
“We are contacting any potential close contacts of the cases to provide health information and advice.”
I will continue to monitor this story as it develops, because it could potentially become a really big deal.
As I explained yesterday, the CDC says that the death rate for the monkeypox in humans can be around 10 percent.
We are already dealing with COVID and a horrifying new bird flu pandemic, and so we definitely don’t need another pestilence to add to the list.
At the same time, we are also facing unprecedented economic troubles, the biggest land war in Europe since World War II, a rapidly growing global food crisis, a nightmarish energy crisis and the worst inflation crisis in decades.
A lot of people are surprised by this “perfect storm” that has erupted, but the truth is that we reap what we sow.
As a society, if we choose to do what is right we will be blessed.
But if we choose to do what is wrong we will be cursed.
And at this moment just about every form of evil that you can possibly imagine is exploding all around us. Let me give you one example…
An Arby’s manager admitted to urinating at least twice in the company’s milkshake mixture, according to a report from the Vancouver Police in Washington.
The police said in a press release that they obtained footage of the night manager, Stephen Sharp, urinating into a milkshake mix container. Sharp confirmed the incident with police and said he had done it for “sexual gratification,” according to the release.
You may be thinking that is just one guy, and you would be correct.
We can’t draw conclusions about our entire society from just one guy.
So let me share some very alarming nationwide poll results that have just come out.
According to a brand new NBC News survey that was just released, 60 percent of Americans say that abortion should be legal.
That is the highest number in the history of that poll.
32 percent of respondents said that abortion should be illegal “with exceptions”, and only 5 percent said that abortion should be illegal “without exceptions”.
That means that only 5 percent of Americans are 100 percent pro-life at this point.
When asked if Roe v. Wade should be overturned, 63 percent said yes and 30 percent said no. That is the same two to one margin that we have seen in surveys that have asked this question going all the way back to the late 1980s.
I don’t even have the words to express how disappointed I am in those numbers.
Gay marriage is another issue where there appears to be an overwhelmingly consensus. According to the NBC News survey, 65 percent of Americans support gay marriage. Once again, that is the highest number in the history of that particular poll.
Only 20 percent indicated that they were against gay marriage, and the remaining respondents answered “not sure” or gave another response.
On another note, there was a little bit of good news in the survey. 39 percent of respondents said that they approve of Joe Biden and 56 percent of respondents said that they disapprove of him.
Those are horrible numbers for Biden.
And 75 percent of respondents believe that the country “is headed in the wrong direction”.
Well, that is definitely true.
In fact, I have often warned that if we stay on the road that we are currently on there isn’t going to be any sort of a positive future for America.
But just changing politicians is not going to fix this nation.
Ultimately what we really need to fix is our hearts, and right now there is no indication that this is going to happen any time soon..
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On Saturday, health authorities in the UK announced that two more human cases of monkeypox have been confirmed…
Two more cases of rare viral monkeypox infection have been diagnosed in England, health authorities said on Saturday, adding that they are not linked to one reported a week ago.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the latest infections involved people living in the same household and an investigation was underway into how they contracted the virus.
But these two new cases did not have any contact with the first case that was confirmed on May 7th.
So authorities are in a race to figure out how they could have contracted it.
As for the case that was confirmed on May 7th, authorities believe that the victim was infected in Nigeria…
It comes after the first case was detected in a person who recently flew into the UK from Nigeria on May 7.
The patient received specialist care in an isolation unit at Guy’s and St Thomas’ infectious disease hospital unit in London, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
Hopefully these cases have been isolated quickly enough and officials will be able to successfully contain these outbreaks.
Because monkeypox is not something that you want to mess around with.
It is similar to smallpox, but the good news is that it is usually not as severe. The following comes from the official CDC website…
In humans, the symptoms of monkeypox are similar to but milder than the symptoms of smallpox. Monkeypox begins with fever, headache, muscle aches, and exhaustion. The main difference between symptoms of smallpox and monkeypox is that monkeypox causes lymph nodes to swell (lymphadenopathy) while smallpox does not. The incubation period (time from infection to symptoms) for monkeypox is usually 7−14 days but can range from 5−21 days.
Since it has such a long incubation period, that would make it an ideal candidate for a global pandemic if it mutates into a form that can spread easily among humans.
According to the CDC, monkeypox has a death rate in humans of about 10 percent…
The illness typically lasts for 2−4 weeks. In Africa, monkeypox has been shown to cause death in as many as 1 in 10 persons who contract the disease.
COVID has a death rate of much less than 1 percent in humans, and it paralyzed the globe for two years.
So can you imagine what a pandemic with a death rate of about 10 percent would do?
Speaking of pandemics, the bird flu continues to spread like wildfire all across the United States.
Last week, a case was confirmed at a commercial facility in the state of Michigan for the very first time…
The state has found avian influenza at a commercial turkey farm in eastern Muskegon County, forcing the farm to kill its stock in an effort to prevent the virus from spreading.
While the state did not release the name of the farm, an employee at Sietsema Farms confirmed to News 8 it one of its facilities is involved.
This is the first confirmed case of bird flu at a commercial poultry operation in Michigan, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said.
There are still quite a few states that have completely escaped this plague so far, but in the states where it has hit the consequences have been absolutely devastating.
PBS is reporting that “over 37 million birds are dead across more than 30 states”, and since that figure is from earlier this month the true death toll is probably significantly higher by now.
Since early February, we have gone from one confirmed case at a commercial facility in the U.S. to more than 37 million dead.
That is scary.
And a few weeks ago, the CDC confirmed a human case of the bird flu in Colorado…
A person has tested positive for avian influenza A(H5) virus (H5 bird flu) in the U.S., as reported by Colorado and confirmed by CDC. This case occurred in a person who had direct exposure to poultry and was involved in the culling (depopulating) of poultry with presumptive H5N1 bird flu. The patient reported fatigue for a few days as their only symptom and has since recovered. The patient is being isolated and treated with the influenza antiviral drug oseltamivir. While it is possible the detection of H5 bird flu in this specimen is a result of surface contamination of the nasal membrane, that can’t be determined at this point and the positive test result meets the criteria for an H5 case. The appropriate public health response at this time is to assume this is an infection and take actions to contain and treat.
The CDC says that the death rate for the bird flu in humans can be as high as 60 percent.
So we better hope that the bird flu never mutates into a form that can spread easily among humans.
If you follow my work on a regular basis, then you already know that I believe that we have entered an era of great pestilences.
All over the globe, curious scientists are monkeying around with extremely deadly diseases, and as we have seen it is way too easy for deadly diseases to escape from a lab environment.
We are tempting fate every single day, and at some point our luck will run out.
Hopefully it will not be tomorrow, but without a doubt a day of reckoning is fast approaching.
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