MAN,
THEY SAID AIDS WAS FROM AFRICA, WE ARGUED THAT FOR YEARS SINCE 1982 THEN
THEY ARE SAYING AGAIN THAT MONKEY POX IS FROM THE MOTHER'S LAND(AFRICA)? NO
NO, THIS TIME THE MONKEY POX IS FROM PAPA'S LAND(AMERICA).
THANKS.
KERVIN SOKO
>From: mathew jallow <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: MONKEY POX ORIGINATED FROM GHANA?
>Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:31:51 -0700
>
>So there is a rat called Gambian rat? I never knew. Why didn't they say so
>rather than putting us Gambains on the defensive edge? The way the news was
>communicated,it was clear that even the news readers were conveying the
>impression that the rats were actually from the Gambia. So now the
>monkeypox disease came from Ghana, transmitted by a Gambian rat, that was
>imported to Texas, that in some way had a randezvous with a prairie
>dog,that somehow spread the disease to Wisconsin and Illinois. What
>Garbage.!!!! What a tall tale.!!!. What is the matter with these people
>who spread these inaccurate facts ?
>To tell the truth,I have never seen anyone infected with this disease. Not
>in The Gambia, not anywhere else in Africa; never EVER.
>NO, MONKEYPOX IS NOT FROM AFRICA. NO NO NO NO. I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT.
>Next disease please!
>
>Aggo Akyea <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>June 13, 2003, 2:46PM
>
>http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/nation/1950468
>
>Wisconsin health worker suspected of monkeypox Case would be first such
>U.S. human transmission in U.S. By TODD ACKERMAN
>Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle Medical Writer
>
>A health care worker in Wisconsin may have contracted monkeypox from a
>human patient, which would be the nation's first such incidence.
>Wisconsin officials said Thursday the virus hasn't been confirmed in the
>worker, but tissue specimens have been sent to the Centers for Disease
>Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The worker has been isolated.
>"The worker had no contact with an animal and became ill after caring for a
>person with a suspected case of monkeypox," said Dr. Herb Bostrom, director
>of Wisconsin's bureau of communicable diseases. "She had respiratory
>symptoms and a short-lived smallpox on the back of her hand consistent with
>monkeypox."
>In another case, Dr. John Melski, a dermatologist at Marshfield Clinic in
>Marshfield, said a medical assistant is suspected of getting the disease
>after helping treat a 3-year-old girl May 22. The girl was later diagnosed
>with monkeypox.
>"She held the child when the child was brought in and may have had contact
>with the infected lesion," Melski said. He said the medical assistant's
>boyfriend has some similar symptoms, but it's unknown how he may have
>gotten sick.
>Monkeypox, the exotic African disease that has spread from pet prairie dogs
>to humans, is typically and most effectively transmitted from animal to
>animal. But it can pass from human to human, as it has in Africa.
>The U.S. government Wednesday recommended smallpox shots for people exposed
>to monkeypox, including pregnant women and children; banned the sale and
>distribution of prairie dogs; and prohibited importation of all rodents. A
>Gambian rat is believed to have spread the virus to prairie dogs.
>The CDC also issued a list of signs and symptoms to determine which
>patients have monkeypox and to help in its investigation of the potentially
>fatal viral disease.
>Lab tests have confirmed 12 of the 62 suspected cases of monkeypox under
>investigation in four states. These include Indiana, with 28 cases;
>Wisconsin with 21; Illinois with 12; and New Jersey with one. Fourteen of
>the patients have been hospitalized, but none has died.
>The smallpox vaccine, 85 percent effective against monkeypox, can prevent
>the disease up to two weeks after exposure to the virus. It's most
>effective in the first four days.
>But Bostrom was skeptical of CDC's recommendation that exposed people get
>the shot, saying the Wisconsin health department will continue to identify
>those who've been exposed, monitor those providing care for ill victims and
>act promptly to limit spread of the disease.
>"Although known to provide some immunity against monkeypox, the smallpox
>vaccine has the potential for serious side effects such as encephalitis and
>heart problems," said Bostrom. "In addition, the CDC has not provided final
>guidance on this experimental use of smallpox vaccine."
>Texas has had no suspected cases of monkeypox, though its source went
>through the state. Federal, state and local authorities have linked the
>disease to Gambian rats imported from Ghana, West Africa, in early April by
>a Texas pet distributor. The prairie dogs also came from Texas, one of 15
>states where infected prairie dogs are being sought.
>The signs and symptoms of monkeypox are considered similar to those if
>smallpox -- a rash consisting of raised bumps and pus-filled blisters, a
>fever of 99.3 degrees or higher, headache or backache, sore throat, cough,
>and shortness of breath -- except it causes swollen lymph nodes. The
>illness typically lasts two to four weeks.
>Monkeypox is a rare disease that occurs mainly in the rain forest countries
>of central and west Africa.
>In Africa, monkeypox is fatal in as many as 10 percent of those who
>contract it. Before smallpox was eradicated, the equivalent figure for that
>disease was 30 percent.
>"This monkeypox outbreak is another reminder that in today's world,
>infections we don't know anything about can be a threat," said Robert
>Couch, a professor of molecular virology at Baylor College of Medicine.
>"The once-popular notion that the only things we have to worry about now
>are cancer and heart disease is wrong. We have to continue to be vigilant
>about newly emergent infectious diseases."
>
>
>Aggo Akyea
>
>"If you identify a problem, be sure to suggest a method of solution."
>
>
>
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