Ep 100 Monkeypox: Here we go again?

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

A little over two years into a pandemic, the last thing you probably want to see is headlines announcing yet another disease spreading across the globe. And yet, here we are. Beginning in May 2022, an increasing number of cases of monkeypox have been reported in many countries around the world, both in places where the monkeypox virus is known to occur as well as places where it had previously never been observed. And although the monkeypox virus itself is not new, some of the ways it is acting during this outbreak are. In this episode, we take you through what we knew about monkeypox before this outbreak began, first by exploring the biology of this poxvirus and how it makes you sick before walking through the history of its discovery and past epidemics. Then we shift our focus to the ongoing outbreak: What is different about the patterns we’re seeing today compared to past outbreaks? How has the virus changed? How exactly is it transmitted? And, a question we haven’t asked in a very long time, how scared do we need to be? Tune in to hear us address these questions and many more about this re-emerging poxvirus.

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0:00.0	It's hard to imagine losing a loved one, a wife, a husband, a child.
0:04.4	For many, it's their biggest fear.
0:06.4	Amarissa Jones, host of The Vanished.
0:08.9	A podcast that tells the stories of often overlooked and unsolved missing persons cases,
0:13.6	in an effort to uncover the truth.
0:15.8	Follow The Vanished on Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:22.1	Hey everyone, just a content warning here.
0:25.6	The first-hand account does describe the death of an infant, and so if you would like to fast forward
0:31.9	past that part, we recommend jumping ahead about two minutes.
0:38.4	The patient was a nine-month-old boy who became ill with fever on August 22nd, 1970,
0:44.4	and two days later developed a rash.
0:47.0	He was admitted to Boston Kusu Hospital on September 1.
0:51.4	On examination, it was recorded that the lesions were hemorrhagic,
0:55.5	although they showed a centrifugal distribution, typical of smallpox.
1:00.5	Kress were collected for laboratory examination.
1:03.7	The rash lasted about two weeks.
1:06.7	During the scabbing stage, the patient developed otitis and mastoiditis,
1:11.5	as well as enlarged painful cervical nodes, which were subsequently incised and drained.
1:18.7	The patient recovered and was about to be discharged, but on October 23rd,
1:23.5	he developed measles and died six days later.
1:26.6	The child had never been vaccinated.
1:57.4	Things were
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