On September 10, 2018, Express.co.uk reports: the executive agency of the United Kingdom Department of Health and Human Services (Public Health England, formerly the National Health Agency) has confirmed the emergence of the deadly MPV (Monkeypox virus) virus in the UK.
MPV is a virus first identified in 1958 and belongs to the poxvirus family. In its origin, structure and antigenic characteristics, MPV is analogous to variola virus, causing similar symptoms in infected individuals: general intoxication, fever, muscle pain and exanthema (fluid-filled blisters):
Monkeypox virus was diagnosed in the UK for the first time - previously the virus manifested itself exclusively in West Africa.
In this case, the virus was detected in a Nigerian citizen who arrived in the UK on a flight. Since the incubation period of the virus is from one to three weeks, it is believed that the patient became infected in his home country, after which, being already infected, he arrived in the country.
Until the diagnosis was clarified, the patient was under observation at the naval base in Cornwall, after which, having accurately established the diagnosis, he was transferred to the infectious diseases department of the free Royal Hospital in London. Police and health officials in the UK are currently trying to contact other passengers on the flight that brought smallpox to the UK.
National Medical Service Deputy Director Dr. Nick Pin reassures the alarmed public:
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“It is important to emphasize that monkeypox is not easily transmitted from person to person, so the overall risk to the general public is very low. Currently, the United Kingdom Department of Health and Human Services executive agency is closely monitoring everyone who has had contact with a patient to suggest preventive measures or initiate treatment if needed.
In general, UK medical professionals have well-established and reliable methods of infection control, as well as procedures to prevent infectious disease in case of contact with an infected person. All necessary measures are and will be followed to minimize the risk of transmission."
Dr. Michael Jacobs, director of the infectious diseases department at the Royal Free Hospital in London, also says: “Monkeypox is in most clinical cases a mild disease that goes away on its own and does not have long-term effects on human health. Most people recover within a few weeks.
In addition, it is an extremely rare disease that has been reported mainly in Central and West Africa. The virus is practically not transmitted from person to person and the risk of transmitting the disease to other people is very low. However, at our hospital we use rigorous patient isolation procedures - both to protect our staff and other patients.”
All in all, British doctors are telling the truth if the nonsense written in medical textbooks is considered true. The reality is actually a little different.
Dr. Michael Jacobs is the whole head of the infectious diseases department of the Royal Free Hospital in London, that is, clearly not an idiot and a guy educated in medicine. However, this guy is talking about a disease that never happened in his country! Where does knowledge come from? Where is the practice? With the same success, this Michael can speculate about heart surgery or acute appendicitis. That is, about things about which he had read something somewhere in textbooks, but in which he was zero as a practitioner.
The same can be said about the practice of doctors in terms of human smallpox. Back in 1980, the World Health Organization solemnly announced the elimination of smallpox - that is, that the variola virus no longer exists in nature and has survived only in test tubes of secret military laboratories. In other words, modern doctors have not seen smallpox in the eyes and we know about it only from ancient books.
Moreover: since smallpox is, as it were, defeated, total vaccinations against it have not been carried out for decades, and if the virus breaks free somewhere in the world, a pestilence will begin, as in a besieged medieval fortress. And there is no guarantee that the monkeypox virus does not mutate, and only one step separates it from the mutation that kills people.
If a guy from Africa all in smallpox blisters had arrived in Europe in 1975, he would have been solemnly taken off the flight and taken to a specialized hospital, where he would have been ritually sprinkled with green paint. This would have ended the incident.
But we live today in a different time, when some kind of "AIDS", then some kind of "bird flu" constantly appear, when some terrorists openly threaten to start a biological war in the USA and Europe, when frightened airport doctors suddenly For some reason, they began to quarantine all aircraft arriving from the south. So against this background, the message about the MPV virus in Britain looks very strange. It looks like the story will continue and we are following the development of events.