That’s not quite true, everyone who was born before the chicken pox vaccine was available has a 99% chance of being exposed, whether you developed a case or not. So if you were born before 1980 you may never have been vaccinated nor developed chicken pox but rest assured you carry the virus.
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Actually, you can get shingles after having had the vaccine, without having had natural chicken pox infection. I’ve seen it, and the kid was NOT immunosuppressed! I was pretty astonished, but it’s happened.
It ain’t necessarily so… I have seen CP in adults, even up to age 50. It’s horrible at that age. Yes, most people who were children in the era before the vaccine came out are immune, but not all! I know plenty of people who have had it as adults.
If we are taking about monkeypox, the chickenpox discussion is not even relevant to the subject of this thread. Different viruses, folks.
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Well, then they need to change the title of the thread, since it’s called “Monkeypox outbreaks.”
Seems like contact tracing would work well with this type of virus.
Somehow I think that the wider population will be very eager to take a vaccine against monkey pox because a) it’s disfiguring, and b) it has the word monkey in its name.
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I have the same thought, that we have learned nothing! It seems to be acting differently to how they thought….and we should all be a lot more careful.
My D had chickenpox as a preschooler and got shingles as a middle-schooler. She was miserable! H and my brother similarly had chickenpox as kids and shingles as an adult. Both were likewise very miserable. My brother had constant migraines throughout his shingles. My H and D needed a narcotic to be able to sleep. 
Just read an article where the WHO states the outbreak probably stemmed from gay sex at 2 raves in Belgium and Spain recently. Kinda makes sense in that it takes pretty aggressive skin contact to contract monkeypox.
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Well, if you read the article I linked to above, a kid is in the hospital, people with no connection to other people who are ill are sick and the illness is coming out in 3 days vs 3 weeks. So it may be, that this is somewhat different to the usual monkey pox.
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So far it sounds like it’s not a widespread public health issue.
We need to keep an eye on how this shakes out:
“U.S. health officials are monitoring six Americans for potential monkeypox infection after they shared a flight with a British patient who tested positive for the virus. They sat within a three-row radius of the patient on a flight from Nigeria to the U.K. on May 4. The U.S. patients likely don’t have the virus but will be monitored for 21 days, McQuiston told STAT.”
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Not to get into details of the process but I would think the skin contact is involved in all sexual activities so why do we only see it in the news related to gay sex?
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From the above mentioned article:
“The number of confirmed cases in the UK rose to 20 on Friday and is expected to climb significantly in the weeks ahead as more people are traced and others come forward for testing. Public health officials are still working to identify the source of the outbreak as many of the patients have no known links to other cases.”
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I’d end that sentence with “yet”. My expectation is there is a link, they haven’t discovered it yet. It’s too early to start jumping up and down about this situation. The media, WHO and CDC all have ptsd from COVID and need to take a deep breath. Monkey pox has been around for decades. It’s not a new virus.
From the article I posted:
Heymann, who is also a professor of infectious diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the monkeypox outbreak was likely a random event that might be traceable to a single infection.
“It’s very possible there was somebody who got infected, developed lesions on the genitals, hands or somewhere else, and then spread it to others when there was sexual or close, physical contact,” Heymann hypothesized. “And then there were these international events that seeded the outbreak around the world, into the U.S. and other European countries.”
He emphasized that the disease was unlikely to trigger widespread transmission.
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Yep, I’m one of the ones who got chickenpox as an adult, a few years before the vaccine was available in the US. I was very cross that it took so long after other countries had approved it. It was miserable. I was sick for two weeks. I had pox in my vagina. And then I missed another two weeks of work, because my kid got sick. I’ve had both kinds of shingles shots.
But to return to monkeypox, I’m concerned, but from what I’ve read so far, it sounds like I’m not in great danger of being exposed. Certainly hope not!
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From what I’ve read thats the current hypothesis of how the initial spread may have started but it’s unlikely to remain exclusively limited to that community.
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