The Much Deadlier New Strain Of Monkeypox Has Now Reached The United States

by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:

It is here.  The deadly new strain of Monkeypox that has been causing so much havoc in central Africa has now reached our shores.  Of course most people will not be too alarmed when they hear this because they will think that this version of Monkeypox must be similar to the version that has been circulating in the U.S. since 2022.  That version primarily spreads through sexual contact, and it has an extremely low death rate.  This new version spreads in multiple ways, and it has a much higher death rate.  Scientists have been watching this new strain spread in central Africa for some time, and now it is starting to pop up all over the globe.

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The case that has just been confirmed in northern California is the very first case of this new strain in the United States.  Apparently this particular individual had just returned home from a trip to eastern Africa…

A person in California has tested positive for a form of mpox causing a widespread epidemic in Africa, the state’s Department of Public Health reported on Saturday. It is the first known case in the United States.

The individual, who was not identified, had recently returned from East Africa. The patient was diagnosed in San Mateo County, just south of San Francisco, and was isolating at home.

This is starting to become a recurring pattern.

All over the world, cases have been popping up that involve people that had recently traveled to Africa…

Infections in people returning from Africa, however, have been found in Germany, Sweden, Thailand and the United Kingdom, among other countries. A case in India was reported in a person returning from the United Arab Emirates.

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In Germany, Sweden, Thailand and India, the virus was transmitted no farther. In the United Kingdom, the infected individual passed mpox to three household contacts.

The good news is that these outbreaks were caught in time.

The bad news is that this new strain is raging out of control in Africa.  It is being reported that there have been over 57,000 cases since January, and more than 1,000 victims have died…

There have been more than 57,000 confirmed or suspected cases since January and nearly 1,200 deaths, many of them children. The World Health Organization declared the epidemic a global emergency in August.

Scientists that are studying the disease say that this particular strain of Monkeypox continues to mutate.

And apparently there is new evidence of “sustained human-to-human spread”.  The following comes from an article posted on nature.com entitled “Monkeypox virus keeps getting better at spreading among humans”…

Health officials have been using genomic-sequencing tools to track the outbreak. As part of the effort, Mbala and his colleagues sequenced virus samples from infections in Kinshasa. In samples of both the clade Ia and Ib virus, they found a specific pattern of single-letter genetic mutations indicative of the ongoing battle between the human immune system and the virus — a pattern that would be unlikely to appear unless there was sustained human-to-human spread.

If this strain of the virus ultimately mutates into a form that can spread like wildfire among the human population, we will see widespread panic.

We all remember the fear that was caused by a global pandemic that had an extremely low death rate.

So what would happen if millions of people all over the world started catching a disease with a much higher death rate?

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