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My first tweetorial – on #monkeypox. (Disclaimers: my views only, evolving situation)
Let’s talk the what, who, when, and why. Slides are mine.
Let’s talk the what, who, when, and why. Slides are mine.
#monkeypox is a dsDNA virus w/ famous relatives. esp. smallpox, a poxvirus w/ whopping 30% mortality rate. Smallpox eliminated) led ppl to learn variolation (ancient technique) + vaccination (w/ cowpox, then vaccinia virus = weak poxviruses). #monkeypox = less deadly smallpox. 
Where’d it come from? Animal to human transmission, probably from reservoir host of rodents. annoyingly, has nothing to do with monkeys – the name is because it was discovered in monkeys.
After top 100 updates we will put the top 120 updates , we will start with a thread of top 100 & then move along .
It is a concerning since we may end up seeing either multiple pandemics together or relay race as new organisms try jump into humans ctd)
It is a concerning since we may end up seeing either multiple pandemics together or relay race as new organisms try jump into humans ctd)
101/n Whie people like all of us were fighting #Covid , #Hepatitis in kids we all missed how 1284 people got #monkeypox with lethality of 4.5 % ctd)
102/n Interesting paper on efficacy of soaps shows that 1 min hand washing to be effective in cell free virus but not as much in intracellular virus doi.org/10.1016/S0166-…
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