According to a new analysis of people with medical or public health credentials tweeting about the risk Monkeypox posed to children last year, 82% overstated or exaggerated it.
Monkeypox is to be rebranded as ‘mpox’ after global health experts said the name had racist connotations and could lead to stigmatisation.
Is it too much to expect that someone in a position of authority will announce that the alleged threat from monkeypox is over, asks Dr Roger Watson.
The WHO's alarm over monkeypox turned out to be predictably misplaced, but there is now a whole global industry and bureaucracy dedicated to overhyping pandemic threats and rushing out vaccines.
It was inevitable that the WHO would up the pandemic ante regarding monkeypox, despite there being only five deaths and all of them in Africa, where the disease is endemic. But vaccines for children are on their way.
The WHO has declared the monkeypox outbreak to be a global health emergency, despite there being just 16,000 cases globally, 95% of which were sexually transmitted and 98% of which are in gay and bisexual men.
The Centers for Disease Control has issued a two-page guide for those who want to engage in sexual activity in the age of Monkeypox. It doesn't sound much fun!
Monkeypox is a well-known virus, studied by scientists for decades, spread by close contact and has established treatments. So why has the NHS website recently been altered to add an isolation requirement?
In 2019, almost 200 people contracted gonorrhoea every day. Gonorrhoea is pretty nasty, fairly infectious, widespread and on the increase. What’s so special about monkeypox, that we're making a fuss about 70 cases?
Cases of the rare tropical disease monkeypox, which usually spreads through close contact, have been linked to sexual contact and LGBT networks, including a gay fetish event in Belgium.
