Some of the pictures I saw a few days ago looked quite alarming⊠This monkey-thingy, it doesnât look niceâŠ
@Stella perhaps the pictures in this article from Sky News. I didnât originally post this link for fear of some accusing me of further the plague island mantra 
Nope. it was in French Press⊠but I see youâve kindly brought them to my attention again⊠no, no and thrice times no⊠I donât want to see 'emâŠ
By the way⊠coughs and sneezes spread diseases⊠it strikes me that Masks could be making a come-back âŠ
La maladie se transmet par contact direct avec les lĂ©sions cutanĂ©es ou les muqueuses dâune personne malade, ainsi que par les gouttelettes (salive, Ă©ternuements, postillonsâŠ). Lâentourage du patient est donc sous surveillance.
The disease is transmitted by direct contact with skin lesions or mucous membranes of a sick person, as well as by droplets (saliva, sneezing, sputter, etc.). The patientâs entourage is therefore under surveillance.
I did wonder why people were given me a wide berth. Still, a whole carriage to myself on the TGV was a definite result 
Been discussing the Monkey Pox with neighbours⊠they simply shrugged their shoulders⊠some more vehemently than others⊠but the overall opinion range is:
âItâs not dangerous, unlike CovidâŠâ
" you will recover from this"
âno problemâ
(personally, I still donât want it⊠
)
We have a program investigating producing monkeypox antigens for diagnosis. It first came up in 2018, but didnât really go anywhere commercially. I understand smallpox vaccine is effective to prevent it, and material is being commissioned âjust in caseâ.
Interestingly, this outlines some of the whyâs and whereforeâs for pandemics.
Right now, there is seemingly only one reported case in France (Paris IIRC) but the incidence is effectively doubling up in UK - in much the same the coronavirus did in the early stages worldwide.
Good grief. I donât read UK Press⊠so I didnât know that.
Hmmm⊠definitely hanging onto my masks and will carry sheepdip stuff in my handbag at all times.
The suggestion appears to be that a group of men who are freely intimate with each other have all managed to catch it here in the UK. Chances are youâre not their type, and should be safe.
Strange how French Press hasnât mentioned that aspect/thoughtâŠ
and when my neighbours were discussing it⊠none of them comforted me by saying "youâre not a man⊠" so perhaps itâs not considered like that over hereâŠ
It doesnât really care what we like, but it needs close-ish contact.
It may also be unacceptable to mention that side of things. I have memories of the impact HIV had on the western gay community, even though it is not in the least fussed about sexual orientation.
Definitely the sheep dip at 20 pacesâŠ
Itâs more the up close and personal bit it likes than genders
I remember a sixteen year old girl, informing me that AIDS was actually something thought up by us Oldies to spoil the fun of the younger generationâŠ
âLies, all Liesâ I was told⊠( if only it had beenâŠ)
of course, that was many years ago⊠sad times followed.
I would imagine most of us on here have had a smallpox vaccine which offers protection against the monkey version
OH had his in the armyâŠ
not sure that I ever did though⊠at what age (and how) would it have been administered