Tue. 05/24 - Monkeypox: How Concerned Should We Be?

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Everything you need to know about monkeypox––what is it, how is it spread, and how concerned should we be? Plus, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is returning to Earth on Wednesday, after just a few hiccups on its first successful trip to the ISS. And Coca-Cola is introducing new bottle caps that you can’t remove from the bottle. Sponsors: DeVry University, Learn more at DeVry.edu/Engineering Calm, Get 40% off a Calm Premium Subscription calm.com/coolstuff Links: Why monkeypox isn't like Covid-19 (Vox) Rare monkeypox outbreak in U.K., Europe and U.S.: What is it and should we worry? (NPR) The symptoms and causes of monkeypox infections, which CDC calls an 'emerging issue' (NBC News) U.S. monkeypox case reported, as Spain, Portugal report infections in growing outbreak (STAT) Monkeypox global case tracker (Global.health) Monkeypox (WHO) Spread prediction from modeling expert (Thomas House, Twitter) Thread on transmission and vaccines (Bill Hanage, Twitter) The Monkeypox Virus Is Affecting Queer Men, but Has Nothing to Do With Being Queer (them) Monkeypox: UNAIDS 'concerned' about stigmatizing language against LGTBI people (United Nations) Unfair monkeypox labeling must stop before our image goes from Curious George to Typhoid Mary (USA Today) How to watch Starliner capsule return to Earth on Wednesday (Digital Trends) Boeing Starliner problems go beyond thrusters (Washington Post) Watch the Starliner capsule live (NASA) Coke's new bottle cap doesn't come off (CNN) Coca-Cola's attached bottle cap is rock bottom of hokey greenwashing (TechCrunch) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.2	It's Tuesday, May 24th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Everything you need to know about
0:42.7	monkey pox. What is it? How is it spread? And how concerned should we be? Plus, Boeing's
0:49.8	Starliner spacecraft is returning to Earth on Wednesday after just a few hiccups on its first
0:55.5	successful trip to the ISS. And Coca-Cola is introducing new bottle caps that you can't remove from the
1:04.0	bottle. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. I've been avoiding talking about this one, because it feels a little bit like it's being
1:14.7	blown out of proportion, and I didn't want to contribute to that, but I think it is time. And at the
1:20.7	very least, I can help spread some facts and some analysis from experts on whether or not we
1:26.2	should actually be concerned.
1:28.0	I am talking, of course, about monkeypox.
1:31.4	So as of recording, there have been over 160 cases of monkeypox reported across 16 countries,
1:38.2	mostly in Europe, but also in Australia, Canada, the U.S., and Israel.
1:42.9	No deaths have yet been reported from these cases.
1:46.2	And the Data Science Initiative, Global. Health, has a Google sheet case tracker going that I will
1:51.5	link to in the show notes if you were curious about keeping up to date.
1:55.1	Monkeypox is from the same genus of viruses as smallpox. It causes flu-like symptoms, usually including fever, headache,
2:03.4	muscle aches, and swollen lymph nodes, as well as a rash that can turn into fluid-filled
2:09.1	blisters that last for about two weeks. Some say that it is more mild than smallpox. It can be
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