Passenger with human monkeypox traveled through Atlanta airport, CDC warns

[LiberalArkie]

July 16, 2021 at 5:19 pm EDT
By WSBTV.com News Staff
ATLANTA — A U.S resident who had spent some time in Nigeria before heading home is the first reported case of monkeypox in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control.

The CDC says the traveler left Lagos, Nigeria on July 8, arriving in Atlanta on early on July 9. After a layover at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, the traveler continued on to Dallas later on the 9th. The traveler is currently in a Dallas hospital.

CDC investigators have not released a description of the traveler and are working with airline, state and local health officials to contact passengers or others who might have come in contact with the patient during the trip.

Investigators say mask policies put into place during the COVID-19 pandemic likely limited other traveler’s exposure to the virus, which is also a respiratory virus.

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(Did anyone have human monkey pox on their bingo card)

[OnDoutside]

1. Mo monkeying around....

[Effete Snob]

2. I thought they banned all those "emotional support animals"

[LisaL]

3. Symptoms are similar (although milder) to smallpox.

Lovely.

[BadgerKid]

4. The smallpox VACCINE is effective here.

Because monkeypox virus is closely related to the virus that causes smallpox, the smallpox vaccine can protect people from getting monkeypox…

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/clinicians/smallpox-vaccine.html

[LisaL]

5. But who has been vaccinated against smallpox?

Didn't they stop vaccinating children at some point?

[BadgerKid]

6. Yep. Essentially eradicated like polio.

Thanks to science and vaccines.

[IL Dem]

14. Polio is not yet eradicated worldwide.

It is in the U.S., but still fighting in poor countries. That is why we still vaccinate for it.

Smallpox is eradicated world-wide.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

7. Vaccinations stopped in the 1970's

Military personnel got it in the early 2000's but that got scaled back and now only certain personnel get it.

[LisaL]

9. I wonder if vaccination given back then is still effective today.

NT

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

11. Not likely

Full effectiveness was only 3-5 years, at least it was for the one I got in the Army. It drops after that and boosters are required. The last mass public vaccinations were close to 50 years ago. People who got might have a better chance or outcome then unvaccinated, but after that many years, that may be a low chance.

[liberal_mama]

13. I was born in 1968 and got the smallpox vaccine, but my kids didn't get it

I wonder about all this vaccine hesitation, even with childhood vaccines now. How do we know that vaccines we got 50 years ago are still effective? What if measles, rubella, polio and diptheria start going around again? Will we have to get new boosters for everything because of anti-vax people?

[2naSalit]

8. That's good to know.

[ananda]

10. I never heard of monkeypox before. So WTF?

!!!

[Greybnk48]

12. There was an outbreak of Monkey Pox in Wisconsin and other States in 2003.

People had bought prairie dogs as pets and they passed it to the humans. I remember one little girl on the news here in Wisco.

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/outbreak.html