ShortHand: Should We Be Worried About Monkeypox?

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🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Symptoms like shivering, 'skin eruptions', and anal bleeding are always going to ring alarm bells. But with the first human cases of Monkeypox popping up in the 1970s, why is it hitting headlines now?

Why has the WHO declared it 'a public health emergency of international concern'?

And more importantly, should we be sharing towels?

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Sources:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/monkeypox
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/monkeypox/
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/symptoms.html
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22371-monkeypox
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45665821
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/monkeypox-is-spreading-in-the-uk-heres-why-its-not-the-new-covid-0xjkvxn3s?gclid=Cj0KCQjw852XBhC6ARIsAJsFPN20TY4RzKhzRN-zBnE86YLXcOoaZ-lyqOaO3PWUyE2XCWeL9_oLrvMaAiaPEALw_wcB
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0:00.0	How are the days are coming?
0:02.0	How are the days are coming?
0:04.0	How are the days are coming?
0:06.0	How are the days are coming?
0:08.0	Yes, it's official.
0:10.0	Holidays are coming.
0:12.0	Coca-Cola Zero Sugar brings the magic this Christmas.
0:16.0	This is the season, it's always a real thing.
0:18.0	How are the days are coming?
0:32.0	Hello, welcome to the virus village.
0:34.0	We actually bumped this one up the running
0:36.0	because everyone's talking about it.
0:38.0	The whole point of shorthand is that we can be hot off the presses topical.
0:42.0	So welcome to virus village.
0:44.0	Population, all of us.
0:46.0	Population, literally everybody.
0:47.0	Everybody is, of course, talking about monkeypox, but what is it actually?
0:51.0	Are we on the brink of another series of lockdowns, party gates, pajama pizzas, pub quiz zooms,
0:57.0	and if you're Hannah, months and months of crying, shorthand sir.
1:01.0	No.
1:03.0	For the long answer, here's the shorthand.
1:05.0	Is that the line I'm the most proud of writing in the last year?
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