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Ruth H's avatar

Yes I have the scar too. It’s definitely something you don’t want, but neither do you want the vaccine unless in high risk. It’s mostly spread by contact with someone who has it. The big LGBT+ festival drawing 80000 from all over most likely started this. Last time in US was 2003 and I don’t remember any media fear.

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Peter Imanuelsen's avatar

There have actually been a few monkepox cases in the West last year I believe in people who travelled from Africa. But there wasn't really a lot of community spreading that we are seeing now. My suspicion is that either something with the disease mutated/changed or we have these high number of cases because of close contacts at these raves. Time will tell how this plays out.

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