Of course they do

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  1. >Der kantonsärztliche Dienst habe das Contact Tracing aufgenommen, um mögliche Ansteckungsketten nachvollziehen zu können – [SRF](https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/bag-beobachtet-situation-erster-fall-von-affenpocken-in-der-schweiz)

    We are doomed.

    >Nach dem ersten bestätigten Fall einer Affenpockeninfektion in Schweden hat die Regierung des Landes die seltene Viruserkrankung als für die Allgemeinheit gefährlich eingestuft. Und auch die Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO zeigt sich wegen der Ausbreitung der Krankheit ausserhalb der sonst dafür bekannten Regionen in West- und Zentralafrika besorgt.
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    >Zwar gibt es einen Pockenimpfstoff der dritten Generation, der in Europa für die Immunisierung von Erwachsenen gegen Pocken zugelassen wurde, doch in der Schweiz nicht.
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    >Ebenfalls nicht zugelassen ist in der Schweiz die Behandlung von schweren Fällen mit einer antiviralen Therapie mit der Verabreichung von Tecovirimat. Dieser Wirkstoff wurde in der EU erst kürzlich zugelassen und das deutsche Robert-Koch-Institut (RKI) weist für die Behandlung von Affenpocken explizit darauf hin.

    It’s like watching the same movie again.

  2. Yesterday the BAG said according to a Tages-Anzeiger article that an outbreak of Monkey Pox is “extremely unlikely” in Switzerland.

    Obviously I commented that this means that it can be only a matter of days now before we’ll see a case. Well, it seems even this was too optimistic….

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    By the way: [Neither the vaccine nor the medicine](https://twitter.com/marcelsalathe_d/status/1528062868247150597) (both available in the rest of Europe) are approved in Switzerland.

    So we can play a funny game: What will we receive first: Paxlovid* or the Monkeypox medicine?

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    [*] which is still unavailable in Switzerland despite all our neighbors having it since January or February

  3. No no no no no I am not ready for the next pandemic. I’m still recovering from the last one.

  4. Stop panicking for fucks sake. There are around 100 cases WORLDWIDE, the desease isn’t infectious and not dangerous. Media just love to create headlines and clicks. What do you want, quarantine?

  5. It is immensely important that people are informed exactly how the infection occurs. from there it becomes clear that it is not simply transmitted. find out exactly who the infected people are.

  6. Chill, it’s not a respiratory disease it won’t spread like Covid. You can panick in about 10 years when the next corona virus is here.

  7. “Human-to-human transmission is thought to occur primarily through large respiratory droplets. Respiratory droplets generally cannot travel more than a few feet, so prolonged face-to-face contact is required. Other human-to-human methods of transmission include direct contact with body fluids or lesion material, and indirect contact with lesion material, such as through contaminated clothing or linens.” – basically, if the person you intend to exchange fluids with has lesions on his private parts or is covered in strange pimples, take them to the hospital and then run.

  8. There are probably 1000 times more people getting infected by AIDS every day then this MonkeyPox but no one is panicking. Just keep calm, ignore this story and you’ll be fine.

  9. Did the companies producing the “counter-measures” already run out of money? Jesus we just had the fearmongering from covid

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