Mpox, your statins questions and tick-borne meat allergies

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mpox is spreading and it’s been classified a public health emergency by the World Health Organization. Presenter James Gallagher meets Professor Trudie Lang from the University of Oxford who has been working in the areas affected to discuss what it means for people in the countries it’s already reached and whether its spread can be stopped.

James also puts your questions on statins to Professor Naveed Sattar, and we hear the story of Simon who works in the outdoors as a landscape manager. He was having bouts of severe illness and was struggling to understand what was behind it. The answer? He’d had successive bites from ticks and was having symptoms of an allergic reaction when he was eating meat. He had alpha gal syndrome, commonly known as a meat allergy. We hear how it’s caused debilitating changes to his life.

We also hear from Consultant Immunologist Dr Rachael O’Brian who has been documenting the first case of alpha gal syndrome her team have been diagnosing at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey.

Presenter: James Gallagher Producer: Tom Bonnett Assistant Producer: Katie Tomsett Editor: Holly Squire

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0:34.5	Hello there and welcome to the Inside Health podcast. I'm James Gallagher. For the second time in two years,
0:40.1	a global emergency has been declared over Mpox. That's the disease that used to be known as monkeypox.
0:46.5	Now there's plenty of confusion we need to clear up here, so we're going to do that. And also on
0:51.3	Inside Health, can you imagine living with a meat allergy? Well, we're going to chat to
0:56.5	someone who is diagnosed after eating a plate full of haggis. And we're going to answer your questions
1:02.1	that you've been emailing in about statins. But first, let's keep the focus on MPox. The virus causes
1:08.1	painful blisters and sores on the skin, as well as fever and body aches.
1:12.6	And it can be really dangerous. There are death rates of up to 10% in some previous outbreaks.
1:18.6	But one of the sources of confusion at the moment is that there are actually really three separate strains of the virus
1:24.6	causing almost three simultaneous overlapping outbreaks. Each are
1:29.6	behaving differently. So we're going to unpick all of that for you. So I'm joined by Professor
1:34.5	Trudy Lang from the University of Oxford, who's working with teams in Africa. Hi, Trudy. Thank you for
1:39.9	having me. So I think the first thing I wanted to do was just tease out what's going on with
1:44.6	all of these different strains or clades because it feels like there's almost two or even
1:49.3	three you could argue outbreaks all happening at the same time. So can you run through them for me?
1:55.0	Yeah, I think it's actually quite useful to think about almost three different. Now we can
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