As the world grapples with various health challenges, a new concern has emerged for Queensland residents.

A cluster of ten linked monkeypox cases has been identified, marking the largest recorded cluster in the state to date.

This development has prompted swift action from health authorities, with contact tracing efforts in full swing to prevent further spread.

The cluster, separate from an earlier outbreak in Victoria, has raised questions and concerns among the community.

Queensland Health has been actively notifying the public of the locally acquired cases of monkeypox, now referred to as mpox, as of 30 May.

Queensland Health has detected 10 cases of Monkeypox in Victoria. Credit: Shutterstock

Mpox is a viral disease that spreads through close contact with an infected person's skin lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets, or contaminated items such as bedding or clothing.

While it can present as a mild illness with flu-like symptoms such as fever, headache, and swollen lymph nodes, it's the distinctive rash that often raises alarm.

This rash typically appears on the face one to three days after the onset of fever and can spread to other parts of the body.

The first case of mpox was reported in Australia in May 2022, and since then, the World Health Organisation has declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.

On 28 July 2022, Australia's Chief Medical Officer followed suit, declaring monkeypox a communicable disease incident of national significance.

Victoria had confirmed 16 cases of mpox since 18 April, 13 of which were locally acquired.

‘All cases are currently linked, and contact tracing is underway by public health units,’ a spokesperson for Queensland Health said.

‘Anyone who has been in contact with someone with mpox should contact their local public health unit and monitor for symptoms for 21 days.’

Queensland Health added that high-risk groups such as sex workers are eligible for free vaccines through sexual health clinics and GPs.

‘Government-funded Mpox vaccine is available to people at greater risk of Mpox infection through sexual health clinics and some GPs,’ a spokesperson said.

‘Two doses of vaccine are needed for optimal protection, and vaccination reduces the risk of infection and severe disease.’

You can check the list of Queensland Mpox vaccine centres here.

Key Takeaways

• Queensland Health has reported a cluster of ten linked cases of monkeypox, making it the largest cluster recorded in the state.
• Contact tracing is underway, and those who have been in contact with an infected individual are urged to monitor for symptoms for 21 days.
• High-risk groups, including sex workers in Queensland, have access to free vaccines for monkeypox, which require two doses for optimal protection.
• Monkeypox can spread through close contact and presents symptoms similar to influenza, followed by a rash that starts on the face and can spread to other body parts.

Have you or someone you know been affected by the mpox outbreak? Share your experiences and tips for staying healthy in the comments below.

 

[Ingot]

I wonder how we account for these poor people, in our rush "to do what's right." (see video).

After mum died, following her 3rd Astrazeneca shot (the booster shot) I was so very grateful my decision to "wait-and-see" was validated.

As soon as Covid was a risk in the city we lived, I began shopping early mornings, and basically isolating for the rest of the time.

But at an appointment with an optometrist, who wore a mask, I contracted covid.
She was working when she should have been at home.
Neither her mask nor mine was effective in stopping transmission.

She was vaccinated, I wasn't. So I caught it from a Vaccinated person.

Fortunately my self-protection regime and personal bodily fitness at the age of 72, helped me to shrug it off completely in 7 or 8 days.

But we kept hearing stories of people with myocarditis, blood clots, stroke, heart attacks - all within a couple of days of their boosters.

And we kept seeing non-medical people making decisions that affected our ability to live a normal life. We kept noticing physicians and specialist virologists, immunologists all either deplatformed, or suspended, deregistered, or threatened with deregistration, if they recommended alternative off-label treatments, or spoke out about the vaccines.

No one was allowed to mention the harm that was being done, in an infection that basically did kill old people and those with co-morbidities, same as seasonal influenza does.

The vaccines did NOT prevent their deaths.

Yet the cohorts were the same ones that died every year from the seasonal influenza's that did the rounds. We were not allowed to mention that.

And if anyone went to hospital and died - no matter the cause - it was registered as a Covid death. Plenty of that documented, as well as the cash bonuses for hospitals for every Covid death.

Now I cannot prove any of that, because I didn't see the records. But I did speak with colleagues who saw death certificates. But as for cash bonuses for deaths - that's documented in other respected places.

Today - I remain unconvinced that the mRNA vaccines are harmless - in fact I am more convinced than ever, that they should be suspended, until we know more about long term effects - like 15 or 20 years. That's how long it does take to establish safety guidelines.

Enjoy the movie.

The Unseen Crisis: Vaccine Stories You Were Never Told | Documentary

In the climate of a global pandemic, COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out under emergency use authorization after a much shorter than normal testing period.

www.theepochtimes.com

 

[Ingot]

If you are still not convinced, this might help.
I doubt it - I find that - like me - once people have made up their minds on an issue, they won't change it, until it affects them personally.

Enjoy this one too:

From ‘Wildfire Cancers’ to Foot-Long Clots, Dr. Ryan Cole Explains the Dangers of the Spike Protein

I sit down again with pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole for an update on the alarming trends he and his colleagues have seen since the rollout of the mRNA COVID-19...

www.theepochtimes.com

 

[JimmyFlatrock]

No thanks, nuff said.
I wish you well Ingot.

 

[Rob44]

I just wonder how many people died etc after Edward Jenner had got going with his scarification work with cow-pox. That was experimental at the time, although it had been practiced in Turkey before then. No doubt no records were kept and quite a few lives were saved. Masks? Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't but when C-19 first started it enabled me to walk into a bank hidden by a full-face industrial face-mask with no question, there having been a rush on those fairly useless blue face-masks that people tend to wear around their necks or on top of their heads.

The N95 face-mask, if fitted properly, and accompanied by decent hygiene (the practice that saw Dr Semmelweis eventually locked up in a lunatic asylum for demanding that his doctors wash their hands between checking mothers who had just given birth) could well help reduce viral transmission. There will be no useful statistics about the efficacy of assorted face masks, but surgeons still wear them; and when my vaccine-lapsed, non-masked wife caught C-19 from a maskless person in the supermarket and passed it on to me by coughing over my breakfast and all through the house, I wore an N95 mask (according to the precautionary principle) whilst spending about 6 hours in a hospital clinic not knowing at that time I had C19; after telephoning to apologise to the staff immediately after I had tested +tive, and subsequently revisiting that clinic 8 weeks later, I was told no-one had caught C19. Maybe all the non-masked staff had been vaccinated with a current mRNA vaccine, or maybe my mask had contained all my assorted drops of C19-raddled snot. Or maybe none of that and the staff were lucky?

It is interesting to read the World Health Organisation's history of vaccinations; I have copied this from the history of polio vaccination:

"While IPV (injected polio vaccine) protected the vaccinated child, it did not stop the polio virus from spreading between children."

"OPV (oral polio vaccine), on the other hand, interrupted the chain of transmission, meaning that this was a powerful vaccine to stop polio outbreaks in their tracks."

Moral; break the chain of transmission and the virus dies out.

There are many intangibles in this discussion, which all bears significantly on any virus that jumps from animals to humans and to which we have no natural immunity. Next time let us hope we can all collaborate as a community and not still behave as we used to do in the days of the Black Death/Plague and Smallpox.

 

[JimmyFlatrock]

There will be no useful statistics about the efficacy of assorted face masks, but surgeons still wear them; and when my vaccine-lapsed, non-masked wife caught C-19 from a maskless person in the supermarket and passed it on to me by coughing over my breakfast and all through the house, I wore an N95 mask (according to the precautionary principle) whilst spending about 6 hours in a hospital clinic not knowing at that time I had C19; after telephoning to apologise to the staff immediately after I had tested +tive, and subsequently revisiting that clinic 8 weeks later, I was told no-one had caught C19. Maybe all the non-masked staff had been vaccinated with a current mRNA vaccine, or maybe my mask had contained all my assorted drops of C19-raddled snot. Or maybe none of that and the staff were lucky?

I have discovered, over the years, that I tend to have, inherently, more trust in a story that has decent context around it rather than just bald statements. If the storyteller also adds in a degree of self questioning, it adds to my trust in the story.

This part of Rob44's story contains those ingredients.

If one couples that with the logic of the copied information in the later part of the post, the temptation to be led astray, imo, by flat-earth type suggestions is mitigated. At the same time, it is important, I think, to retain flexibility of mind as different scenarios present as a consequence of facing 'cunning' and 'surface shifters' such as the viruses we face today.

Indeed, in the next herding of the 'cats' (agin), the elusive hope is that we will see an improved collaboration amongst the 'cats'. Any bet takers looking for the odds of that happening?

 

[Rob44]

I have discovered, over the years, that I tend to have, inherently, more trust in a story that has decent context around it rather than just bald statements. If the storyteller also adds in a degree of self questioning, it adds to my trust in the story.

This part of Rob44's story contains those ingredients.

If one couples that with the logic of the copied information in the later part of the post, the temptation to be led astray, imo, by flat-earth type suggestions is mitigated. At the same time, it is important, I think, to retain flexibility of mind as different scenarios present as a consequence of facing 'cunning' and 'surface shifters' such as the viruses we face today.

Indeed, in the next herding of the 'cats' (agin), the elusive hope is that we will see an improved collaboration amongst the 'cats'. Any bet takers looking for the odds of that happening?

 

[Rob44]

Miaow!

 

[JimmyFlatrock]

 

[Rob44]

Puuurrrrrrr! Are we not get a trifle flippant about the preceding "catty" chatty stuff?

 

[JimmyFlatrock]

I agree it's easy for me to get caught up in flippant irrelevancy, losing all trace of previous and seriously important issues. Rectified very soon, but first, to say, it did lead to me now knowing how to quickly create a piece of photo-like artwork relevant to a lost flippant moment in time.

So cheers for that curiosity inspired few minutes.

Back, almost on topic, if I may ask about RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) and if you have any anecdotal or more certain knowledge of it. For instance, have you ever caught it or would you consider being immunised against it due to the serious nature of it. The length of time ill and what it could lead to?

 

[Ingot]

The parting shot ...

Oxford University: Myocarditis & Pericarditis Only Appear After COVID Vaccination, Not Infection

Another “conspiracy theory” comes true.

vigilantnews.com

 

[Ingot]

I agree it's easy for me to get caught up in flippant irrelevancy, losing all trace of previous and seriously important issues. Rectified very soon, but first, to say, it did lead to me now knowing how to quickly create a piece of photo-like artwork relevant to a lost flippant moment in time.

So cheers for that curiosity inspired few minutes.

Back, almost on topic, if I may ask about RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) and if you have any anecdotal or more certain knowledge of it. For instance, have you ever caught it or would you consider being immunised against it due to the serious nature of it. The length of time ill and what it could lead to?

I had a nephew who died as a cot death at 7 months of age.
Parents demanded an autopsy, as they had taken him to the hospital for FTT (failure to thrive) for 6 months almost weekly. Was only 11lbs.
The ED kept sending them home saying "Just feed him" essentially labeling them "bad parents."
Parents experienced 'attitude' from the hospital!

No pathology was done!!!

Autopsy showed RSV.
Hospital apologised.
Parents sued - payout uncontested: $140k.

Moral of the story:
RSV is dangerous, but mainly to neonates and some compromised elderly.
In my 40 years of nursing I can remember maybe 2 cases at hospitals in which I worked.

If you have respiratory issues, vaccination is a choice.
Ask your doctor.

 

[JimmyFlatrock]

Puuurrrrrrr! Are we not get a trifle flippant about the preceding "catty" chatty stuff?

I agree it's easy for me to get caught up in flippant irrelevancy, losing all trace of previous and seriously important issues. Rectified very soon, but first, to say, it did lead to me now knowing how to quickly create a piece of photo-like artwork relevant to a lost flippant moment in time.

So cheers for that curiosity inspired few minutes.

Back, almost on topic, if I may ask about RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) and if you have any anecdotal or more certain knowledge of it. For instance, have you ever caught it or would you consider being immunised against it due to the serious nature of it. The length of time ill and what it could lead to?

Sorry, just saw the new thread about RSV and some of your replies.
Obviously the L Plater badge still has relevance.

 

[Rob44]

I agree it's easy for me to get caught up in flippant irrelevancy, losing all trace of previous and seriously important issues. Rectified very soon, but first, to say, it did lead to me now knowing how to quickly create a piece of photo-like artwork relevant to a lost flippant moment in time.

So cheers for that curiosity inspired few minutes.

Back, almost on topic, if I may ask about RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) and if you have any anecdotal or more certain knowledge of it. For instance, have you ever caught it or would you consider being immunised against it due to the serious nature of it. The length of time ill and what it could lead to?

If I get either RSV, or C19 (again), I'll be dead. Being dead is no problem, having tried it once, but getting there by avoidable inflammatory respiratory disease (against which there is a vaccine) is just plain stupid and miserable whilst it lasts. My lungs were bad enough before Covid, but afterwards? Walking up the drive-way is now hard enough, and that is a mere 5 degree slope at best. I have an interesting genetic lung condition as do at least 8 000 others in Australia and if a non-smoker, it will stop one from climbing mountains when about 60-65 years old, as it did me. If a smoker, completely knackered by 50.

So yes; I thought to give the C19 vaccination (sorry, Astra-Zeneca and other mRNA microchip implants) a try, and after number 6 I am hale and hearty, bar the results of that bloody Xmas-time Covid excursion at the END of vaccination period number 5 and just when a brand-new Omicron had come on the market. So I'll have a chat to the quack about spending $330 on the RSV vaccination. I don't want to be able to advise you about how that respiratory virus feels, although if I get it, I probably won't.

That vaccination might even stop me from passing RSV onto my wife, who works in the local hospital; break the chain of transmission, according to the WHO's world-domination conspiracy. Vale Semmelweiss!

 

[JimmyFlatrock]

If I get either RSV, or C19 (again), I'll be dead. Being dead is no problem, having tried it once, but getting there by avoidable inflammatory respiratory disease (against which there is a vaccine) is just plain stupid and miserable whilst it lasts. My lungs were bad enough before Covid, but afterwards? Walking up the drive-way is now hard enough, and that is a mere 5 degree slope at best. I have an interesting genetic lung condition as do at least 8 000 others in Australia and if a non-smoker, it will stop one from climbing mountains when about 60-65 years old, as it did me. If a smoker, completely knackered by 50.

So yes; I thought to give the C19 vaccination (sorry, Astra-Zeneca and other mRNA microchip implants) a try, and after number 6 I am hale and hearty, bar the results of that bloody Xmas-time Covid excursion at the END of vaccination period number 5 and just when a brand-new Omicron had come on the market. So I'll have a chat to the quack about spending $330 on the RSV vaccination. I don't want to be able to advise you about how that respiratory virus feels, although if I get it, I probably won't.

That vaccination might even stop me from passing RSV onto my wife, who works in the local hospital; break the chain of transmission, according to the WHO's world-domination conspiracy. Vale Semmelweiss!

Thank you for going into such detail.
It's appreciated.

 

[Rob44]

The parting shot ...

Oxford University: Myocarditis & Pericarditis Only Appear After COVID Vaccination, Not Infection

Another “conspiracy theory” comes true.

vigilantnews.com

From the "Vigilant News" (not published by Oxford University) which also explains how the convicted criminal, Donald Trump, is uncovering the Deep State.

Pericarditis; inflammation of the pericardium, the tissue encapsulating the heart which in my experience (yes, been there done that before Covid was even a gleam of an opportunity in a conspiracy theorist' s eye) may lead to build-up of fluid around the heart and hence inhibit safe action of that particular pump.

Myocarditis; inflammation of the middle heart wall.

I suppose Covid-19 can also cause both, as C19 affects a wide range of body tissues, and parts, including the brain.

 

[Rob44]

Thank you for going into such detail.
It's appreciated.

I have made a couple of recent comments about diptheria in that RSV thread. The internet is a wonderful thing for obtaining information as well as being a liar's paradise. The Mayo Clinic's comments about diptheria are interesting. These damnable viruses! We do live dangerously! I hadn't realised that the diptheria vaccine also loses its power through time, and that the vaccinated could also be carriers of diptheria. It seems that we need boosters every 10 years. I will turn into a pin-cushion!

 

[JimmyFlatrock]

I have made a couple of recent comments about diptheria in that RSV thread. The internet is a wonderful thing for obtaining information as well as being a liar's paradise. The Mayo Clinic's comments about diptheria are interesting. These damnable viruses! We do live dangerously! I hadn't realised that the diptheria vaccine also loses its power through time, and that the vaccinated could also be carriers of diptheria. It seems that we need boosters every 10 years. I will turn into a pin-cushion!

Just this morning I made a comment to my partner expressing concerns about the number of jabs we have had and were planning. The response from Her (Majesty) was clear. She preferred to take a lower risk jab that could prevent or lessen the symptoms rather than take the greater risk of catching the ever increasingly intense illness of whatever dreaded lurgy is looming around the corner.

Sometimes, stating the bleeding obvious is helpful when considering or reviewing choices.

The shape shifting surfaces of these viruses suggests to me that there will be ones that mutate into deadlier beasties than others. Too much of a lottery to guess which ones, so it looks, for us, like continuing with the jab regimen we have generally adhered to. Choice made.

Despite the knowledge that some vaccinations have not worked out too well, we will continue to place trust in the scientists as the safer bet than not jabbing, as the overwhelming historical evidence favours vaccinations.

 

[Ingot]

Sorry, just saw the new thread about RSV and some of your replies.
Obviously the L Plater badge still has relevance.

No need to be insulting - we are having an open discussion here.

 

[Ingot]

From the "Vigilant News" (not published by Oxford University) which also explains how the convicted criminal, Donald Trump, is uncovering the Deep State.

Pericarditis; inflammation of the pericardium, the tissue encapsulating the heart which in my experience (yes, been there done that before Covid was even a gleam of an opportunity in a conspiracy theorist' s eye) may lead to build-up of fluid around the heart and hence inhibit safe action of that particular pump.

Myocarditis; inflammation of the middle heart wall.

I suppose Covid-19 can also cause both, as C19 affects a wide range of body tissues, and parts, including the brain.

You have described the onset of Cardiac Tamponade.
Simple life-saving action in ED is to insert a hypodermic needle into the pericarial sac, and withdraw the fluid building up.
This can be done in ED without an anaesthetic.
Having years of experience in ED, Coronary Care and Intensive Care, it's well-known to me.
Not sure where this is all going - I am not clear on why I am being surreptitiously painted as a conspiracy theorist.
That's not fair, because I have disclaimed where a statement could be seen as hyperbole, and gived accurate and published, peer-reviewed references to other claims I have published here.

I have not rubbished either of you (@Rob44 or @JimmyFlatrock) but I have at times offered alternate reasoning.

Is it true, or isn't it, that:

"The injection of protein foreign to the body, without having any control over which body cells will produce it, in what dose and for how long, is the mRNA technology.

The body's cells are forced to reproduce this spike protein, which will be mistakenly recognised by our immune systems as foreign, and destroy those cells - much like the rejection of a foreign organ that is transplanted into the body.

The alleged modified RNA vaccination coerces your body to produce a toxin in unknown dose, and for an unknown period of time, literally transforming parts of the body into foreign organs, as would be recognised by our immune system (Vaccine-Induced Auto-immune Disease).

The mRNA platform must be banned, until all of the required testing for complete approval has been done."

In my view it may be premature to be switching all other vaccines over to the mRNA platform. I think they are rushing headlong into a disaster that cannot be undone. Once the shots are in the body - they are there forever. This not just my opinion.

So far we have seen evidence in varous European Courts, where Pfizer has admitted that research was not completed, or even done in some phases, despite telling the CDC that it was.
Fines are yet to be determined, and this won't happen until after Pfizer itself is charged with falsifying research (not for the first time).

I have never stated here that I am anti-vax, but I am vehemently opposed to continuing use of the mRNA Booster shots, beyond the Emergency Use Authorisation.