I did not have monkeypox on my 2021 bingo card. pic.twitter.com/AnVtMa6F4S
— Mede Nix (@medenix) July 16, 2021
*Now* aren’t you glad you listened to the flight attendant, and kept your mask on?…
Rare case of monkeypox found in Texas resident who had traveled internationally.
Health officials say any threat to the general public is low — mainly because the patient and fellow airline passengers were wearing masks.https://t.co/JLTz9Erpqb
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 16, 2021
A case of monkeypox has been confirmed in a Texas resident who had flown to Atlanta from Nigeria on July 8, with a final destination of Dallas Love Field Airport on July 9, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. It is the first case of the virus seen in the United States in nearly two decades.
The patient is hospitalized in isolation in Dallas and is in stable condition, health officials with the Dallas County Health and Human Services said…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is helping to contact the patient’s fellow passengers and assessing their potential risks.
“This is another demonstration of the importance of maintaining a strong public health infrastructure, as we are only a plane ride away from any global infectious disease,” Dr. Philip Huang, director of the Dallas County Health and Human Services, said in a press release…
Authorities have interviewed the patient and close contacts who were exposed and determined there is very little risk to the general public. People who do not have symptoms are not capable of spreading the virus to others. https://t.co/y5WLpXEJ06
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 16, 2021
… Most monkeypox outbreaks have occurred in Africa. In addition to Nigeria, outbreaks have also been reported in nine other countries in central and western Africa since 1970. Monkeypox also caused a large outbreak in people in the United States in 2003 after the virus spread from imported African rodents to pet prairie dogs, with 47 reported human cases…
Re-upping this story because monkeypox virus was just reported in Dallas, Tx. We traveled by boat to this remote African village w @CDCgov scientists as they sought to learn what animals harbor the monkeypox virus. https://t.co/UmC8Qr5YyX
— LenaSun (@bylenasun) July 16, 2021
Great, illustrated story from 2017 — well worth the click:
… The United States experienced a monkeypox outbreak in 2003. An exotic pet dealer imported 800 animals from Africa, including giant pouched rats, dormice and rope squirrels. While the animals were housed in a facility in Illinois, some of them infected prairie dogs that were later sold as pets. Forty-seven people in six Midwestern states were sickened, all of whom recovered. The youngest was a 3-year-old girl bitten on the finger by her new pet prairie dog…
Despite its name, monkeypox is probably not spread by monkeys. It was discovered in research monkeys in Denmark in 1958. Giant pouched rats, dormice and squirrels are the chief suspects, but there could be others…
"Sir, they don't seem to be bothered by the COVID Delta."
"Release the monkeypox story immediately." pic.twitter.com/EqqyIZ5Jqx
— Cory (@CoryUnlimited) July 16, 2021
Cermet
So the people on the plane are very likely safe because …wait for it … they were wearing masks mandated by the Covid precautions! Maybe this is something that should be required from now on. Look what it can do to help prevent an outbreak of a virus. And in the future, this will occur more and more often.
germy
Barn 86 at Saratoga Race Course under quarantine due to positive EHV-1 Case
a positive case of Equine Herpesvirus-1 in that barn.
https://www.news10.com/news/barn-86-at-saratoga-race-course-under-quarantine-due-to-positive-ehv-1-case/
Ramalama
Rick Perlstein, author of many dead-to-rights books on American history is celebrating his book Reaganland’s anniversary. This might be of interest to some of youse who talk about books here at BalloonJuice Central:
I’m a facebook friend of his so that’s where I saw it. I guess hitting me up to hit him up is the way to go. But I won’t bother him with the actual details of how to do that, unless someone here actually wants to zoom with him about the book. Or maybe just hit him up using twitter or an email to him directly. It’s not facebook-specific.
tom
People keep prairie dogs as pets??
artem1s
After imploring folks to self report their vaccinations for months and failing to reach an 80% compliance so we could return to work w/o masking, the U finally laid down the law yesterday and announced mandated proof of vaccination to return to campus. As I suspected, faculty had the lowest rates of self reporting and were the reason most departments couldn’t reach even 60%. Yesterday was the first time The President’s office shared that bit of info. Dumbasses always need to flaunt their social status and inability perform the simplest administrative task themselves. The U has so many policies and practices that were designed around the fact that certain employees won’t perform any task that looks like secretarial work, including recording their own vacation and sick time. Low reporting on vaccination probably had more to do with tenured faculty not being able to figure out how to navigate the HR login to upload their vaccine cards as it did vaccine hesitancy.
dr. bloor
Verrrry clever of the Chinese to let Monkeypox leak out of a Nigerian lab to divert our attention from the COVID leak in Wuhan.
Prove me wrong!
RandomMonster
Seems cruel to me to keep a significantly social creature that spends a lot of time in burrows as a pet.
Uncle Cosmo
I spent a couple of years working in “Prairie Dog Heaven**” and didn’t get infected even though I only wore a mask on Halloween, so there. ;^p
** A forest of cubicles with walls a little over 5′ high. Whenever there was a loud noise a couple dozen heads would bob up above the dividers like prairie dogs popping up from their burrows and look around for the source.
jimmiraybob
How long do you think it will take in Texas for state and local Republican Party officials to demand that the Monkeypox people’s hero be immediately released from unconstitutional Commie-Marxist-BLM-ANTIFA and radical-leftist-Democrat imposed hospital detention all the while under threat of being offered effective live-saving treatment?
OzarkHillbilly
@jimmiraybob: That depends on wether the individual is white, black, hispanic, asian….
Chetan Murthy
@jimmiraybob: Heh, uh, if he’s of African descent, which appears likely from the info we have, I’d say the twelfth of never; more likely they’ll go with “ooga-booga Ebola!”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@artem1s: LOL. That’s cruelly accurate.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@germy:
Cold sore horse herpes or, you know, THAT kind of horse herpes?
Brachiator
Who knew that we would ever say something like “Remember the good old days when we had monkeypox?”
I think I recall some David Letterman jokes about it.
Immanentize
@RandomMonster: But what if you yourself were a social creature who liked to spend almost all their time in a burrow?
ETA I was thinking Ozarkhillbilly when writing this, but he would certainly object to being “social.” Except with his family? Well, at least his grandkids….
debbie
@artem1s:
I think the Universe is about to shut us all down, period.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@jimmiraybob:
Speaking of quarantines, apparently vile English troll Katie Hopkins has managed to get a travel exemption to Australia (ahead of 10s of thousands of actual Australians) and is apparently flouting hotel quarantine rules in SYD while spreading antivax nonsense.
She may think she can hide behind her 2018 insolvency on fines and costs, but she may find herself completely fucked as to fines and deportation.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Oh, and I learned this week that vile troll William Regnery died earlier in the month, so we have that going for us, which is nice.
NotMax
FYI.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@dr. bloor: what’s to say it wasn’t usa basketball trying to deflect from the recent loss?
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@jimmiraybob: never. assuming the traveller is of a darker hue.
germy
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
All this time I thought they were handing out condoms at the track. the way Olympic officials do.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
There are so many vile trolls, I admire how you people (i.e. apparently everyone but me) can keep them straight by name.
So which one is Regnery?
Ah, OK. Rich white supremacist who bankrolled a lot of the alt-right.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@germy:
They need to really sit them down to have that talk about using protection at all times unless in a committed monogamous equine relationship…..
germy
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
We can’t impose our values on them.
In the wild state, their preferred arrangement is one male with a harem of females.
Ramalama
@Brachiator:
I fell into a david letterman video hellrealm. “They pelted us with rocks and garbage.”
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@germy:
How do you put on a horse condom when you only have hooves?
NotMax
Oh, great. Now have the chorus of a Chordettes song stuck running inside the head, only with the word “monkeypox” in place of the one in the title.
germy
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
And this is why they had the outbreak.
NotMax
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Ask “Willlll-burrr!” for assistance, of course of course.
Matt McIrvin
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Apparently NOT the founder of Regnery Publishing–that was his uncle.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, …
Grr…
(via IamHappyToast)
Cheers,
Scott.
Amir Khalid
@Matt McIrvin:
When I saw the name, I did wonder if they were related.
Another Scott
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Obligatory…
Cheers,
Scott.
MomSense
I’m procrastinating weeding my garden and watching The Good Fight. The best thing to happen to TV is the addition of great Broadway actors.
Matt McIrvin
@Amir Khalid: As if they weren’t bad enough. But THIS guy, the Regnery family considers embarrassingly extreme.
NotMax
@MomSense
Never saw that hot mess of a show with Nathan Lane cast as a former opera singer who was also known for being a prolific womanizer, didja?
;)
Just Chuck
@Another Scott: I like Ezekiel 25:17 myself
MomSense
@NotMax:
That’s an oldie!
MattF
Always darkest before the dawn. One hopes.
NotMax
@MomSense
Yeah. Definitely falls head first into the “WTF were they thinking?” bin.
On the other hand, Kristin Chenoweth was a hoot as Olive Snook on Pushing Daisies. And while normally ambivalent about her, liked Bernadette Peters on Mozart in the Jungle.
MomSense
@NotMax:
Mandy Patinkin, Audra McDonald, and Christine Baranski are all that you need to know about this show.
MomSense
@NotMax:
Chenoweth was fantastic on West Wing.
@NotMax:
germy
NotMax
@MomSense
An interlude of lyrical Chenoweth.
;)
MomSense
@NotMax:
That was awesome.
Catherine D.
@artem1s: Huh, Cornell faculty are 98% vaccinated, grad/professional students 97%, undergrads 95%. It’s staff at 84% that drag the number down to 90%.
Chetan Murthy
@Catherine D.: Tompkins county is red, sadly. During Desert Storm, the yellow ribbons started at the Ithaca city line.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Catherine D.: My guess is these faculty members are vaccinated too. They just didn’t report it, either because they didn’t bother or couldn’t figure out how.
Almost Retired
I don’t know what a Giant Pouched Rat is — or if “giant” refers to the size of the rat or its pouch – but I hope we don’t have any of those around here.
Jay C
@Almost Retired:
Well, they’re not actually rats; and the “pouched” refers to their cheeks: but they are pretty big.
And apparently, smart enough to be trained to detect land mines in Africa.
But yeah, we have enough rodent-like species over here already….
Catherine D.
@Chetan Murthy: Not quite as red now – housing prices have moved the yellow ribbons further out.
Catherine D.
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Cornell knew its faculty. The surveillance testing sites have been able to upload the vaccination proof for months.
trollhattan
@artem1s:
My employer is working at getting us back into the building–halftime at first and then full. And yet, and yet, California and especially this county have increases in infections, hospitalizations, ICU cases, deaths. New vaccinations have dropped off to nearly zero and fewer than half the eligible population are fully vaccinated.
We have a (twice-rescheduled) Zoom townhall Monday on the topic. Hoping they’ve come to their senses WRT requiring, rather than suggesting vaccinations for resuming work. I can relatively easily distance myself from jerks in day-to-day life but being boxed up with them forty hours/week is a whole other story.
A Ghost to Most
It’s Texas. What could possibly go wrong?
trnc
Over 50 comments on an Ebola-adjacent story, and no mention of Rand Paul yet?
I don’t even recognize this place anymore.
gene108
@A Ghost to Most:
I don’t know about Dallas, but Houston is supposed to have some very good hospitals.
trollhattan
@NotMax: Little thing has serious pipes.
oatler.
@NotMax:
Chenoweth was great in “American Gods” as Easter.
bjacques
@gene108: just wait until Monkey Pox Delta, coincidentally also my new favorite band name.
persistentillusion
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: The Regnerys are far more loathsome that you know. The paterfamilias lived in my hometown. He had established a trust for his demented mother. I was one of the Trust Officers assigned to the account and it was apparent that he was field-stripping his mother’s assets. Couldn’t even wait for her passing. The whole family was widely reviled.
ETA and there were a lot of them, all horribly greedy and dismissive of the little people (i.e. anyone not fortunate enough to be a Regnery. And their publishing house put out rascist, homophobic and sexist tracts by the cubic yardfull.