In a new study, Nörz et al. swabbed surfaces in the immediate and adjacent rooms of two hospitalized monkeypox patients in Germany. The patients’ isolation rooms were separated from the ward corridor by anterooms, where hospital staff put their personal protective equipment on and off (donning and doffing).
Contamination with up to 100,000 viral copies/cm2 on inanimate surfaces was estimated by PCR and the virus was successfully isolated from surfaces with more than 1,000,000 copies.
According to the authors, all the surfaces that the two patients had touched directly showed viral contamination, with the highest loads detected in both bathrooms (e.g. lever, washbasin, toilet seats). Fabrics such as towels, shirts, or pillowcases that the patients used frequently also showed viral contamination.
Getting ready for the next research paper to drop in the next few weeks/months that would claim it requires a far smaller dose to get infected than previously thought, but hopefully my expectation is wrong.The authors highlight that there currently are no definite data on what dose of virus leads to infection with monkeypox in humans. However, assumptions are that it requires a significantly higher dose to trigger infection than others such as the variola virus (smallpox virus).
Fookin hell...and yet we have morons and pretend Americans who supposedly care so much about Chinese people in China that would immediately condemn, ridicule if this said situation happened in Red China.It seems they don't test people and publish guidelines (So doctors don't have standardized treatment procedures) The USA and the West, in general, are pretending that monkeypox doesn't exist. The god of economy wants more sacrifice.
More like they should stop f..ng each other, each other’s friends me/we/he/she like they're bleeping rabbits. Take some ownership and responsibility for their reckless and unsafe actions. Holy mother of bleep!! These people are beyond selfish.
Seems like this is spread by fluid/close proximity. I'm not concerned personally.
Monkeypox vaccines to be offered at Vancouver bathhouses as 21 cases confirmed in B.C.
Authorities have stressed that the infection can spread to anyone who is exposed through close contact with an infected person or contaminated objects, and it is not limited to men who have sex with other men.