Smallpox of the monkeys: the epidemic of the days that ignores the real dead

Let's talk about the "Monkeypox" epidemic to also give you an idea of ​​its secondary impact and how there are much more serious ongoing epidemics, both in terms of size and mortality, which however do not rise to the headlines, who knows why.

Remember that Monkeypox (Monkeypox) is not Smallpox, it has a low mortality, linked to already weak people, it has a limited contagiousness. The number of cases in the world is very low.

We are at 600 cases out of 7 billion inhabitants. On a global basis, there is less than one sick person for every 10 million inhabitants. Not really many, for a disease that usually ends in a fortnight with a positive prognosis. True smallpox, in other times, had a mortality that could reach 30%.

In the end, few cases and quite concentrated in a few countries. Yet there are serious epidemics with a size comparable to that of monkeypox, with a much higher mortality. For example, an epidemic of hemorrhagic fever broke out in Iraq with over 120 detected cases and 20 deaths, therefore a mortality of 16.7%. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the Congo there are waves of bubonic plague, the serious one, Manzoni, which have been perpetuated since 2021 and which have seen a last or ndata in April - May with over 100 cases detected. Yet there is talk of monkeypox, with a lot of Bassetti who feels obliged to intervene.

My impression is that we see what we want to see, or that certain privileged communities in communications want us to see. But serious illnesses are something different.

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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/vaiolo-delle-scimmie-lepidemia-dei-gionali-che-fa-ignorare-i-veri-morti/ on Thu, 02 Jun 2022 09:00:55 +0000.