Well I am reading that there are a few cases of MonkeyPox which have entered Australia. Something else to be concerned about? Well not if your very old. It seems (according to the ABC) that anyone with a Small Pox vaccination scar, regardless of how old it is, is likely immune to MonkeyPox.
Don't forget all the fuss over Japanese Encephalitis a month or so back, that seems to have vanished off the news cycles.
(I asked a friend in Japan about this and he said that it's a nasty one to get - about 1 in 300 who catch it get a serious case and then your odds of surviving are about 50/50. There is a vaccine, thankfully, but you have to get it into you pretty quickly.)
Well I am reading that there are a few cases of MonkeyPox which have entered Australia. Something else to be concerned about? Well not if your very old. It seems (according to the ABC) that anyone with a Small Pox vaccination scar, regardless of how old it is, is likely immune to MonkeyPox.
yes monkey pox is a bit of a worry I have also heard that the smallpox vaccination
gives you protection from it
Cheers
Ron
