monkeypox

Can someone explain in simple terms why gain of function research on monkeypox isn't supervillain level wrongness?

Anyone know the logic for why it was renamed from Monkeypox to Mpox?

My understanding, though, is that monkeypox and smallpox are/were diagnosed by symptom and rarely or never diagnosed by isolating and identifying the virus in patients.

I remember my mother in law was seriously concerned about monkeypox.

This is tangential to your point, but smallpox vaccine protects against mpox (the virus formerly known as monkeypox) and the CDC still recommends it for people in certain mpox risk groups.

Now for example, we know for a fact that monkeypox spreads through touch and physical contact, but still most people don't take action to safeguard against it.

As we saw with monkeypox last year there is much more limited capacity for more modern pox vaccines due to the more advanced manufacturing process and limited demand.

>formerly called monkeypox When, who and why did its name change?

> Monkeypox and smallpox have very similar symptoms, meaning they could very well be considered the same disease even if they are believed to be caused by two different viruses.

Although you are (as I understand) right, the question itself is valid, lots of diseases spread to species other than the one that is in the name… Chickenpox, monkeypox, swine flu, or even the Spanish flu.

According to Wikipedia the virus is still called "monkeypox virus" and the disease "mpox disease".

For casual sex to be safe I think its more like "Hi, please spit into this tube so we can get busy" and red means HIV, Green means Monkeypox, comprehensively.

Diseases are classified in documents like ICD-11, with mpox defined as caused by the monkeypox virus ("A disease caused by an infection with monkeypox virus [...] Confirmation is by identification of monkeypox virus") and smallpox as caused by the variola virus ("A disease caused by an infection with variola virus [...] Confirmation is by identification of the variola virus in a skin sample of the rash").

Then there’s monkeypox, hepatitis B, scabies, lice… “Do as thou wilt, consenting adult” is one thing, but superspreader behavior affects the whole world through the network of relationships we all have with each other.

Monkeypox and acute flaccid myelitis come to mind Mpox is considerably milder - having killed hundreds of people compared to smallpox's hundreds of millions.

Monkeypox and acute flaccid myelitis come to mind, respectively.

Monkeypox and smallpox have very similar symptoms, meaning they could very well be considered the same disease even if they are believed to be caused by two different viruses.