The Mpox emergency
The World Health Organisation (WHO) acted as expected this week and declared Mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). So, a problem in a small number of African countries that has killed about the same number of people this year as die every four hours from tuberculosis has come to dominate international headlines. This is raising a lot of angst among people who are suspicious of the WHO.
While the anxiety is warranted, it is mostly misdirected. The WHO and the International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee it has convened have little real power – it is simply following a script written by its sponsors. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), which declared an emergency a day earlier, is in a similar position. Mpox is a real disease and needs local and proportionate solutions, but the problem we’re facing is much bigger than Mpox or WHO, and understanding this is essential if we are to fix it.
Mpox, previously called Monkeypox (inappropriately), is caused by a virus thought to normally infect African rodents, such as rats and squirrels. It fairly frequently passes to, and between, humans. In humans, its effects range from very mild illness, to fever and muscle pains, to severe illness with its characteristic skin rash and sometimes death. Different variants, called ‘clades’, produce slightly different symptoms. It is passed by close body contact including sexual activity, and the WHO declared a PHEIC two years ago for a clade that was mostly passed by men having sex with men.
The current outbreaks involve sexual transmission, as well as other forms of close contact, such as within households, increasing their potential for harm. Children are affected and suffer the most severe outcomes, perhaps due to lower prior immunity, as well as the effects of malnutrition and other illnesses.
Reality in the DRC
The current PHEIC was mainly precipitated by the ongoing MPox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), though there are known outbreaks in nearby countries involving a number of clades. About 500 people have died from Mpox in the DRC this year, over 80% of them under 15. In that same period, about 40,000 people in the DRC, mostly children under five, died from malaria. The malaria deaths were mainly due to a lack of access to very basic commodities, like diagnostic tests, antimalarial drugs and mosquito nets, as malaria control is chronically underfunded globally. Malaria is nearly always preventable or treatable if there are sufficient resources.
During the period in which 500 people died from Mpox in the DRC, hundreds of thousands also died in the DRC and surrounding African countries from tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and the impacts of malnutrition and unsafe water. Tuberculosis alone kills about 1.3 million people globally each year, which is a rate about 1,500 times higher than Mpox in 2024.
The population of the DRC is also facing increasing instability characterised by mass rape and massacres, partly due to a scramble by warlords to service the appetite of richer countries for the components of batteries. These, in turn, are needed to support the Green agenda of Europe and North America.
An industry produces what it is paid for
For the WHO and the international public health industry, Mpox presents a very different picture. They now work for a pandemic industrial complex, built by private and political interests on the ashes of international public health. Forty years ago, Mpox would have been viewed in context, proportional to the diseases that are shortening overall life expectancy and the poverty and civil disorder that allows them to flourish. The media would barely have mentioned the disease.
Now, the public health industry is dependent on emergencies. It has spent the past 20 years building agencies such as CEPI, inaugurated at the 2017 World Economic Forum meeting, which is solely focused on developing vaccines for pandemics, and on expanding capacity to detect and distinguish ever more viruses and variants. This is supported by the recently passed amendments to the IHR. While improving nutrition, sanitation and living conditions provided the path to longer lifespans in Western countries, such measures aren’t being prioritised. Rather, the WHO is pushing vaccines instead.
We now have thousands of public health functionaries, from the WHO to research institutes, non-governmental organisations, commercial companies and private foundations, primarily dedicated to finding new markets for Big Pharma, purloining public funding and then developing and selling the cure for the disease de jour. The entire, newly minted pandemic agenda, demonstrated successfully through the COVID-19 response, is based around this approach. Justification for the salaries of those involved requires them to detect outbreaks of diseases, exaggerating their likely impact and the organisation of a commodity-heavy and usually vaccine-based response.
The sponsors of this entire process – countries with large pharma industries, pharma investors and pharma companies themselves – have the power to ensure the approach works. Evidence of the harms this approach is causing are hidden from public view by a subservient media and publishing industry. But in the DRC, people who have long suffered the exploitation of war and the mineral extractors, who got rid of a particularly brutal colonial regime, must now deal with the wealth extractors of Big Pharma.
Dealing with the cause
While Mpox is concentrated in Africa, the effects of corrupted public health are global. Bird Flu will likely follow the same course as Mpox in the near future. The army of researchers paid to find more outbreaks will do so. While the risk from pandemics is not significantly different from decades ago, there is an industry dependent on making you think otherwise.
As the COVID-19 outbreak showed, this is about money and power on a scale only matched by colonial regimes of the past. Current efforts across Western countries to denigrate the concept of free speech, to criminalise dissent and to institute health passports to control movement are not new and aren’t disconnected from the WHO declaring the Mpox outbreak a PHEIC. We are not in the world we knew 20 years ago.
Poverty and the external forces that benefit from war, and the diseases these enable, will continue to hammer the people of the DRC. If a mass vaccination programme is rolled out, which is highly likely, financial and human resources will be diverted from far greater threats. This is why decision-making is centralised far from the communities affected. Local priorities will never match those of the pandemic industry.
In the West, we must move on from blaming the WHO and address the reality unfolding in front of us. Censorship is being promoted by journalists, courts are doing the bidding of politicians and the very concept of nationhood, on which democracy depends, is being demonised. An anti-democratic agenda is openly promoted by corporate clubs, such as the World Economic Forum, and echoed by the international institutions set up after the Second World War specifically to protect democracy and guard against a resurgence of fascism. If we cannot see this, or if we can but don’t call it out, then we will have only ourselves to blame when things get even worse.
Dr David Bell is a clinical and public health physician with a PhD in population health and background in internal medicine, modelling and epidemiology of infectious disease. Previously, he was Director of the Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in the USA, Programme Head for Malaria and Acute Febrile Disease at FIND in Geneva and coordinating malaria diagnostics strategy with the World Health Organisation. He is a Senior Scholar at the Brownstone Institute.
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Eww gross! Well I knew not to worry but now having read this I’d say that unless you’re a gay male with a sex addiction who doesn’t believe in using condoms then you’ve even less cause for concern. Next!
”One of the 229 people diagnosed with mpox in Ireland during the recent outbreak had 75 different sexual partners in the 21 days before they developed symptoms of the disease, a new study has revealed.
The review of cases also found that 96.5 per cent of confirmed infections had been sexually transmitted. All but three of the infected patients were men, and 98.6 per cent identified as gay, bisexual or men who have sex with men (gbMSM).
The youngest patient was 16 and the oldest was 68, and more than one in four (28.3 per cent) were HIV positive, according to a new study conducted by experts with the HSE and Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HSPC).”
https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/health/mpox-patient-75-sexual-partners-29455892
Haha, quite! https://x.com/FatEmperor/status/1824051900347510916
Thanks for this.
I do however blame the WHO as they play their part in this shitshow by giving a stamp of approval to these “emergencies” which enable the vaxx-pushers to make money. If it was just big business pushing it then more people would be cynical, but most people can’t believe the WHO would tell untruths or distort reality.
Agreed.
The WHO is effectively a prostitute organisation providing a veil of $cienctific decency for the pharma company and its employees must know this.
Morning Huxley,
To quote you: “Off-T” – It’s not hard to track you down in these columns, so, given that I seem to read these articles about 24 hours after everyone else – and given that people sensibly don’t often look back at comments they made two days previously – I thought I’d mention something concerning the recent article about the excruciating Miriam Margolyes, specifically in relation to a comment you made in response to a comment of mine on the subject of Charles Dickens. I’ve nothing unpleasant or rude to communicate, but since the Margolyes article is now old hat, do by all means contact me at shersleyken@gmail.com – As I say, nothing unpleasant – I just thought it might be better not to clutter up this space with my irrelevant musings…
If their treaty was ratified we would be Jabbed by mandate don’t you worry ! Steir Karmer will be the first to sign it when it comes up again !
While travelling through Madagascar in a remote area, I mentioned to the two guides, who had limited English to stay away from the Covid vaccine. “I took part in vaccinating in my village” the one guide said. The driver looked worried when I put in plain English “Covid OK” Covid vaccine bad, not good, stay away”…..He looked worried and said I had two. I just told him don’t have any more. The tentacles of Big Pharma seen to get to even the most remote areas. At least the girl I was with didn’t have it and is now educated somewhat on vaccines.
Generally speaking in Europe and America the minorities had the lowest take up of the jab showing they were smarter than the indigenous whites. It may be that in Africa there is corruption at work with money to be made by authorities and local leaders thus leading to the intimidation of people to be jabbed. In the West minorities are exalted above whites and thus they can make up their own minds on whether to take up the jab. The majority of white people in the West it seems are very easy to control by TPTB.
A good analysis. As suggested, it’s quite likely that the usual suspects will promote the sale of a drug that is classified as a “vaccine”, based on the revised definition of the term. Perhaps though, it could be neither safe nor effective, except for the cash balance of the manufacturer.
Flying viruses do not exist. FOI requests demanding a purified isolated virus are never satisfied because none exist. This includes the Mpox virus hoax. Mpox bollocks is simply another rerun of the AIDS scam. Not a single proof exists that an HIV virus exists. Virology is a fraud.
Why the down votes? Do you have a pure Covid or HIV sample. If so a million dollars is yours. No takers after 2 years so far!
This could qualify as an appendix/update to the book “The Real Anthony Fauci”. It’s not a new phenomenon.
Great article David. Context is everything. Thanks for the reference to TB and Malaria. It reminded me that one of the outcomes of Chickenpox is death! But Chickenpox isn’t a novel virus from darkest Africa
To the man with a hammer, every problem is a nail.
To be fair, this did make me laugh;
https://x.com/Greg__Snow/status/1824543138108805468
Hope image is big enough to see and read.
BINGO
Its a pharmaceutical monkey business.
The person pictured used to be a voluptuous blonde transgender woman before the vaccine.
But it is clearly better than dying from Monkey Pox.
Monkey pox lockdowns obviously will be no problem for the inhabitants of Surrey who can hang out in their leafy tree-lined avenues.
Having read books such as Virus Mania and Dissolving Illusions, and numerous critical reports on vaccines, I am now convinced that ALL vaccines are pure poison, even (or especially) those generally accepted as being safe and essential, e.g. against polio.
The adjuvants are certainly poisonous (e.g. mercury, aluminium compounds), in addition to which the main component of any vaccine is the pathogen, supposedly responsible for the disease against which the vaccine is issued.
I am, of course, aware that the world’s doctors are taught from day 1 of their medical training that vaccines are essential to a healthy life, and that this message has been dutifully and convincingly communicated over the decades to all patients, but it would be interesting to hear the matter being discussed with such critical personalities as Mike Yeadon, who used to work for Pfizer, possibly on vaccines, I am not sure.
Not true.
The maximum time any doctor spends studying vaccines is between 30 to 45 minutes of the many years they spend studying.
And a great many if not most learn nothing about vaccines in their years of education and professional training – that’s right – not even 30 to 45 minutes.
What we so often see is the obligatory statements in journal published medical papers that vaccines have saved millions of lives. But when you look for the reference to the evidence these claims are based upon it either does not exist or is a reference to another paper saying the same thing based on a reference to another paper making the same claim without evidence – and so on and so forth.
In other words, if you write about vaccines or disease etc and want to get published, you have to include obligatory statement about how great vaccines are.
It is of course misinformation.
Doctors know a lot about all kinds of diseases but when it comes to treating them they know very little other than the name of the drug to prescribe and nothing about alternative effective treatments.
And even then they know very little about the adverse effects of the drugs they advise their patients to take.
How many people have toenail fungus? It seems quite a few.
If they want to get rid of it their GP will prescribe toxic antifungals which the patient is expected to take for six or more months and which can affect fertility and conception should be avoided.
No doctor will tell their patient, buy a bottle of oregano oil from a good supplier of OTC supplements and put a tiny drop on the affected toes once a day or two days.
The toenail fungus will be dead in a matter of a few days or a couple of weeks and the patient will have to wait for the nail to grow out back to normal.
It is interesting that when any case of bird flu is discovered, an immediate extermination programme is started on anything with wings in the surrounding area. This cannot exactly promote natural resistance within birds’ ranks and leads one to imagine the involved biologists would likely want to act similarly with a human outbreak of flu!
Fully agree!
Dr John Campbell gave a commentary on the MPox scare-a-thon yesterday. Basically, if you’re not in the DRC, nothing to worry about.
Advice from attorney Jeff Childers to the British people. Please read. 0posted in today’s coffee and covid substack..
This week, the UK Guardian ran a story about the controlled demolition of Great Britain, headlined “Sutton man, 61, who chanted ‘who the f—— is Allah’ is jailed for 18 months.”
Retired railroad conductor David Spring, 61, learned this week that protesting is only protected for people protesting under government-approved narratives. They gave the former conductor a year and a half in prison for what he said. The British judge scolded David, saying “What you did could and it seems did encourage others to engage in disorder.”
Eighteen months! The good news is David can now enjoy being a pen pal with our January 6th political prisoners in America.
Along with many other British, David was upset about illegal immigrants being housed for free —well, at taxpayer expense— in swanky London hotels. It was a good thing David meekly apologized to the court for losing his temper, or else they might have thrown him off a roof for insulting the prophet.
Conservatives in Britain need to get smarter. Protests won’t work. Memes will get them arrested. So they need to learn how to protest without protesting, to politely sandbag their government while coloring inside the new lines. They could, for example, submit every single form the government offers, in triplicate. They could apply for every available benefit. They could automatically appeal every traffic ticket, jaywalking fine, or minor BBC rate increase.
Jam it up.
They could pay their fines and taxes in person, in pennies, or pence, or farthings, or whatever coins the British still use. But be smart about it. First, try politely paying with a hundred dollar (pound) bill. When the bureaucrat says sorry, lads, they can’t make change, only then regretfully pull out the sack of coins.
If they won’t take cash, respectfully ask for the manager, and waste an hour of their time.
Brits, culturally skilled at passive-aggressive courtesies, could scrupulously follow every minor regulation, safety rule, and trivial mandate in ways that disrupt smooth government operation. They could use the many snitch hotlines to mass-report government accounts and public officials’ posts for spreading hate or disinformation. They could file millions of small claims cases for any minor (but non-frivolous!) transgression.
They need to learn to wield the rules against the rule-makers. For instance, disabled conservatives could haltingly cross busy London intersections by degrees, stopping a few times to rest, fouling traffic. It wouldn’t take much planning to create total gridlock.
They could organize “buy nothing” days that briefly shut down the economy. They could organize mass opt-out campaigns and boycott government-friendly corporations. They could relentlessly phone their ministers and local agencies with stupid, time-consuming requests. Sorry, I forgot what you told me last time, be a good bloke and tell me again.
They could visit their local zoning offices in person, and when it’s their turn, they could hog the window, feigning confusion and asking dozens of exhausting questions until the bureaucrat goes insane and orders them out. Then the next citizen in line could step up and repeat the same laborious inquiry. They could all come back the next day and start over.
The ideas are potentially limitless. The idea is legal protests. Protesting without protesting. Quiet riots.
To help our beleaguered British cousins, add your own creative suggestions in the comments.
Shut. It. Down. This strategy exploits the great weakness still available to citizens suffering in allegedly open societies. Politely and compliantly use the government against itself. Force the government to go Full Orwell. But for Heaven’s sake, stop actual protesting. Don’t become a target. Mindless protesting only works for leftists. We are much smarter than they are. Hit them where it hurts. Nicely. Legally.
Every government, even authoritarian governments, operates solely with the consent of the citizens it governs. Just stop consenting. I hope this helps. Get the word out.
Why not just organise peaceful protests? The problem is there is no one and no organisations or money to do that so there is also no one or organisation to organise what marebobowl tells us here that attorney Jeff Childers is advising.
Why is no one asking Starmführer’s Left and Hard Left [some Socialist Worker nutters being evidently present amongst them] why none of them are protesting about our homeless ex-servicemen and women and our 80,000 homeless young people who need homes but instead protest that ordinary UK citizens who do are fascists and Far Right?
Or why none of them are protesting about the decades long corrupt Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman service which is pretty blatant about finding all kinds of excuse to not uphold sound complaints and so protects the NHS and Parliamentarians and the like from valid complaints?
Or why are none of them protesting about the decades long corrupt Department of Work and Pensions industrial injuries scheme which is also pretty blatant about finding all sorts of invalid reasons for denying compensation to victims of industrial injuries and vaccine adverse reactions?
Or why are none of them protesting about why in 14 years the Opposition [ie. Starmführer’s Labour Party MPs] did not question the Tories borrowing an annual average of £128 billion nor demand to know what the Tories thereby maxed out the national credit card on? WTF did the Tories spend it on? I would like that explained in Technicolour.
There are lots of problems in the UK to campaign about for the greater good.
So why is no one asking Starmführer why his Left and Far Left Labour Party instead concentrate on issues which are about creating divisions in UK communities, about the destruction of our values and beliefs and communities and the indoctrination in our schools of our children with woke and gender identity issues and thereby setting the children against their parents.
And why is no one asking Starmführer why he is supporting the Left and Hard Left factions which were supposed to have been cracked down on but clearly have not been. They are a fifth column undermining and destroying the UK’s political system and communities and cohesion and which seem to be funded by money from external interests like billionaire George Soros.
I read an article by a reasonable scientist today which said the Mpox has a very similar “gain of function part” to the fake C thing. Oh dear! More MRNA anyone?
Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) is literally pronounced….”FAKE”. Need I say more?