Monkeypox and White Racist Media.

First, What is Monkeypox (MPXV)?

"Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is a zoonotic virus that circulates in a yet unidentified animal reservoir in Africa with humans and primates being considered incidental hosts. The virus belongs to the same genus as the variola virus, which causes smallpox, and presents with a similar presentation of a febrile prodrome and a characteristic rash. A case fatality rate of up to 10% in children has been reported, but is much lower in adults.
Although MPXV is usually constrained to small outbreaks in remote parts of Central and West African countries, with cases elsewhere mostly linked to Africa travel, several cases of monkeypox virus are recently and increasingly being detected around the world (United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Canada, Belgium, Australia, France, Germany, and the USA). This raises concerns about increased human-to-human transmission and necessitates urgent investigation into the underlying causes."

Simplified Version Please? In Simple Words...

Well, Monkeypox is a virus that transmitted between some unknown animal to Monkeys and Humans in Africa (Previous outbreaks were in Central Africa as in Congo, CAR and also in West Africa like in Nigeria). Like most Pox viruses its deadlier for the children, some strains even had 10% deaths among children. 

This time however, outbreak didn't start in Africa but in Europe and no Monkey or other primate has been infected. 

So its transmitting from human to human. 

How does it Transmit ?

Through Body fluids, lesion part or fluid contamination.. so it can easily travel in Mass transit and Dining area, if they are too crowded. 

Like all forms of Pox , very painful , causes high fever and severe bodyache..

BUT THERE ARE GOOD NEWS..

This strain in circulation in Western Europe  is not the deadliest strain  of Central Africa, but closely linked with British strain on 2018 ( OH, yes, Outbreaks happened before the Pandemic) which was a strain linked to 2017 Nigerian outbreak. 

This Phylogenetic tree I cut and pasted from a scientific paper published in Virologicalwebsite

 As this study of the first Belgian case shows, he travelled to Portugal and picked up the virus and it's very contagious as his partner, who didn't travel to Portugal but caught Monkeypox.

Racism in Media 

Check any picture on any News channel or App or Website.  Do they show the photograph of any European patient ..

NO Sir, skin lesion photos are always always of African Kids.

Western Media did this for SARS-COV2 with photos of Oriental people.  For AIDS also, they relentlessly blamed in Africans, as if Africans went to the Western world and spread that virus sexually. 

As they say in Baseball, 3 strikes and YOU ARE OUT.