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"theory going around on social media" - that's about as scientifically credible as the musings of a drunken baboon.
tbh I just couldn't be bothered to go and look for the original tweet, but it had links to academic papers and seemed reasonably scientifically literate, but not being a virologist I really can't judge how credible it was. It seems worth being open minded to the theory at least given the significant amount of data emerging on the different ways covid infection can affect the body.
 
tbh I just couldn't be bothered to go and look for the original tweet, but it had links to academic papers and seemed reasonably scientifically literate, but not being a virologist I really can't judge how credible it was. It seems worth being open minded to the theory at least given the significant amount of data emerging on the different ways covid infection can affect the body.

The immune system does get exhausted luckily! Not in any way the stories you have read mean it anyway I’d imagine. As said already, the reduction in global small pox vaccinations is almost certainly a factor.

Pretty sure I’ve had smallpox vaccine already. Not sure when they stopped being given in the U.K.
 
The immune system does get exhausted luckily! Not in any way the stories you have read mean it anyway I’d imagine. As said already, the reduction in global small pox vaccinations is almost certainly a factor.

Pretty sure I’ve had smallpox vaccine already. Not sure when they stopped being given in the U.K.
1971
 
Routine mass use of it in the UK seems to have ended in 1971:

I am advised by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation that, in view of the eradication of small pox from all but a few countries and the therefore much reduced likelihood of a case of small pox reaching Britain, the routine vaccination of children need no longer be recommended. If a small pox case were to arrive, control measures should be adequate, the advice continues, to contain the infection. The staff likely to be exposed in such an event should keep up their vaccination. Persons visiting those areas where the disease has not yet been eradicated should have been recently vaccinated.My right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Secretary of State for Wales and I have accepted this advice, and our Chief Medical Officers are writing to all doctors informing them of it.This progress with the eradication of smallpox is due to the successful campaign organised by the World Health Organisation and put into effect by more than 40 countries in South America, Africa and Asia. Vaccination remains a generally safe and reliable preventive measure, to which we owe this present advance.

 
Interesting paper. Caveats on the authors being in the industry but still decent info if interested.

 
there was a curious bit in the mail today about how some drug was licensed for treatment of smallpox in 2013 but is handily also good against monkeypox. why would anyone have been developing a drug for smallpox in 2013, let alone licensing it?
 
They changed name recently
:D since Cupid stunt quoted? I was curious about the age of the article if it said PHE and therefore did not directly relate to the current situation.

Maybe they have some autocorrect feature that doesn't pick up if you c&p text
 
I read that the Americans don’t trust the Russians not to use it as a biological weapon. Hence they still produce vaccines.
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just seemed weird to me that it would be approved for something which no one had had in the uk for many many years
 
:D since Cupid stunt quoted? I was curious about the age of the article if it said PHE and therefore did not directly relate to the current situation.

Maybe they have some autocorrect feature that doesn't pick up if you c&p text
More likely the BBC just fucked it up earlier and have since corrected that article. The transfer of responsibilities from PHE to UKHSA happened at the start of October 2021.
 
there was a curious bit in the mail today about how some drug was licensed for treatment of smallpox in 2013 but is handily also good against monkeypox. why would anyone have been developing a drug for smallpox in 2013, let alone licensing it?

Research has been going on for years into the vaccines needed for rare viruses. This one, Nipah, Zika and no doubt a bunch of others. Doing the prep now is one of factors needed for quick vaccine production to occur when needed, such as with sars-cov-2.
 
OTOH this is not so positive.




Apparently close contacts of known cases are already being offered the smallpox jab.
How is it getting confused with chicken pox? Chicken pox are small whereas the pics I've seen of monkey pox are large blisters. :hmm:
 
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just seemed weird to me that it would be approved for something which no one had had in the uk for many many years
I think this might be something to do with the downsides of the original smallpox virus (which contained live virus and had bad side effects in some people) - there are new safer modified-live vaccines that have been developed just-in-case, I assume in the US, and I suppose it would be sensible to get it approved in most major markets. I guess smallpox resurgence must remain enough of a threat for this to be financially viable - eg many governments will stockpile.
 
I guess smallpox resurgence must remain enough of a threat for this to be financially viable - eg many governments will stockpile.
Smallpox as a biological weapon is one of those fears that gets the attention of authorities from time to time, so some funding for vaccines has probably come from preparedness efforts in that regard. For example such concerns featured in the cold war at times, due to soviet weaponised stockpiles.
 
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there was a curious bit in the mail today about how some drug was licensed for treatment of smallpox in 2013 but is handily also good against monkeypox. why would anyone have been developing a drug for smallpox in 2013, let alone licensing it?

Given how cavalier people in your office are about poison cupboard keys and -80 degrees freezers, do you really have to ask that??
 
Hmm I think Fiegl Ding is a bit of a crank tbh. I would take his posts on the subject with a bit of a pinch of salt.

He does cone across a bit shrill and alarmist, doesn’t he? I think his style may be affected by the febrile politicalisation of infectious disease we’ve seen in the US recently. That or he’s an attention whore.

His creds check out mind: Biographical Summary
 
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