BA16 (SYD-SIN-LHR) monkeypox outbreak
#46
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Thus this is not overkill but standard epidemiology by the Singapore health officials.
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeyp...nsmission.html
#47
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Originally posted by 1P:
AS CWS has implied, you would have received the jab at school, not via your GP. I remember having jabs at school in the 1950s, but have no idea what they were I assume diphtheria, smallpox and polio immunizations, since these were routinely given to everyone.
AS CWS has implied, you would have received the jab at school, not via your GP. I remember having jabs at school in the 1950s, but have no idea what they were I assume diphtheria, smallpox and polio immunizations, since these were routinely given to everyone.
Whether or not I had had a smallpox vaccination earlier, I needed one in June 1960 before my first flight to North America.
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#49
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The index person had developed blisters (oh and by the by, went to a "massage parlor" in Singapore despite being ill, how reckless is that!) so that the crew rest area is a possible source of infection as Monkeypox, like smallpox can be spread by fomites.
Thus this is not overkill but standard epidemiology by the Singapore health officials.
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeyp...nsmission.html
Thus this is not overkill but standard epidemiology by the Singapore health officials.
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeyp...nsmission.html