mpox

It is coming for the childhood vaccines, but flu and mpox are the next station on that trip.

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.

They also might not be considered a conspiracy organization, which with Mpox they truthful were.

Having read the AAP's schedule: the recommendations are Mpox and Dengue are only for populations at risk, and not necessarily infants: e.g.

Halted inspections for mpox, Ebola and other infections at airports and other checkpoints.

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

Also, you wrote that Mpox was among vaccines recommended to children.

Let's say I grant you that Mpox and Dengue are not really on the recommended AAP schedule, since they have asterisks.

Why on earth are flu shots, and mpox shots now disfavored?

Is it that Beth criticises partisan actions (if you consider FDA's actions partisan, or the CDC's renaming of the mpox), while being partisan herself, which is hypocritical?

> Mpox is considerably milder - having killed hundreds of people compared to smallpox's hundreds of millions.

> In fact, the AAP recommendations include some extremely questionable vaccines for children in the USA, such as Mpox and Dengue.

Dengue: > Seropositive in areas with endemic dengue (See Notes) Mpox: 18+ "for certain high-risk groups or populations" You can also turn to page 7 for the same notes for Dengue, and page 11 for what constitutes risk factors that would lead you to consider administering the mpox vaccine.

The "asterisks" contradict what you're saying: one of the Dengue recommendation's conditions are people who have diagnostic confirmation of a previous Dengue infection (endemic areas include Puerto Rico and American territories in the Pacific); Mpox is recommended for people over 18 (minimum age) which meet a series of risk factors primarily concerning being men-having-sex-with-men plus other conditions.

Your mpox and dengue points are nonsense, as already stated, but I wanted to get to this: > Rejecting one schedule because you read that it was "anti-science" is as non-sensical as accepting the AAP without knowing that it's actually very different than the WHO recommendations.

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").

In the case of Mpox, it's because the disease isn't a risk for most children (especially not in the USA).

Mpox has now mutated and is rapidly spreading and killing children and the wider population, as well as gay men.

Mpox is not just a strain of smallpox that became less virulent over time - they diverged long before smallpox jumped to humans.