Monkeypox: Should You Be Worried?
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
As over 200 monkeypox cases are reported in 21 countries, many are having flashbacks to early days of the Covid pandemic. How worried should we be?
Oxford Professor Aris Katzourakis gives a masterclass on everything you need to know: what monkeypox is, whats its relationship with smallpox, what the symptoms are, how deadly it is, has it mutated or could it, will it spread to our pets, why the outbreak is disproportionately affecting gay and bisexual men, and can we eradicate monkeypox altogether?
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| 0:28.0 | So, monkey pox, we are very, very honored to be joined. |
| 0:30.9 | My professor, Aris Katsomakis |
| 0:32.9 | from Oxford University. |
| 0:34.9 | I think we've done pretty well, |
| 0:36.9 | cremde like cremde with experts. |
| 0:38.9 | Let's start, professor. |
| 0:42.0 | What the hell is monkey pox? |
| 0:44.0 | So, monkey pox is a virus. |
| 0:46.0 | So, it's a parasitic organism |
| 0:50.0 | that subverts our cells to copy itself |
| 0:54.0 | and to spread through our bodies and through the population. |
| 0:58.0 | And in doing so, unfortunately, |
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