It's been two years since my last posting here. Two years ago, we were in the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Hopefully, we aren't at the beginning of another pandemic.
Here’s a summary of monkeypox related news up to this date.
NOTE: Read/watch everything with a grain of salt.
June 10, 2022
U.S. Monkeypox Cases Double as Spread Continues Through Close Contact, CDC Says
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-monkeypox-cases-double-as-spread-continues-through-close-contact-cdc-says-11654886200
Diseases suppressed during Covid are coming back in new and peculiar ways
Influenza, Respiratory syncytial virus, adenovirus, tuberculosis and monkeypox are among a number of viruses to have spiked and exhibited strange behaviors in recent months.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/10/flu-hepatitis-monkeypox-diseases-suppressed-during-covid-are-back.html
US buys more monkeypox vaccine as global case count grows
The U.S. government has 72,000 Jynneos doses, and will get 300,000 more doses from its manufacturer, Bavarian Nordic, over the next several weeks, said Dawn O’Connell,
who oversees the government’s stockpile of emergency vaccines and treatments.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/us-buys-monkeypox-vaccine-global-case-count-grows-85315246
June 2, 2022
Silent spread of monkeypox may be a wakeup call for the world
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/health/monkeypox-endemic-silent-spread/index.html
June 1, 2022
Monkeypox Outbreak is Intentional Lab Leak
https://expose-news.com/2022/06/01/study-monkeypox-outbreak-is-intentional-lab-leak/
May 31, 2022
Youtube Video by Dr. John Campbell
NIH, Wuhan were working on monkeypox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E6cD-VWhQY
May 20, 2022
Monkeypox Outbreak Appears to have Leaked from Ukraine Lab
Independent investigator Dr. Benjamin Braddock claims that an unnamed source at the ECDC told him that preliminary analysis of the monkeypox strain currently doing the rounds found the virus came from a lab and may be related to the U.S’s biological research in Ukraine.
https://newspunch.com/ecdc-bombshell-monkeypox-outbreak-appears-to-have-leaked-from-ukraine-lab
May 12, 2022
Russia Claims to Have 'New Evidence' of U.S. Bio Labs in Ukraine
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-claims-have-new-evidence-us-bio-labs-ukraine-1706201
May 8, 2022
Coverage of monkeypox spreading around the world begins
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/08/uk/uk-monkeypox-case/index.html
March 17, 2022
Victoria Nuland: Ukraine has “biological research facilities,” worried Russia may seize them
When asked whether Ukraine possesses “chemical or biological weapons,” Nuland did not deny this: at all. She instead–with palpable pen-twirling discomfort and in halting speech, a glaring contrast to her normally cocky style of speaking in obfuscatory State Department
officialese–acknowledged: “uh, Ukraine has, uh, biological research facilities.” Any hope to depict such “facilities” as benign or banal was
immediately destroyed by the warning she quickly added: “we are now in fact quite concerned that Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking
to, uh, gain control of [those labs], so we are working with the Ukrainiahhhns [sic] on how they can prevent any of those research
materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach”.
https://mronline.org/2022/03/17/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-biological-research-facilities-worried-russia-may-seize-them/
March 11, 2022
Russia Claims to Have 'New Evidence' of U.S. Bio Labs in Ukraine
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-covid-health-biological-weapons-china-39eeee023efdf7ea59c4a20b7e018169
March 10, 2022
WHO told Ukraine to destroy pathogens in public health labs to avoid spills spreading disease
A number of public health laboratories in Ukraine, as in many other nations, have been researching high-threat pathogens, including COVID-19, in an effort to learn how to treat and prevent them, the wire service reported.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/597800-who-told-ukraine-to-destroy-pathogens-in-public-health-labs-to/
February 24, 2022
Russia Invades Ukraine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
August 10, 2021
Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology created a large fragment of the monkeypox virus for test purposes, per the following study:
Efficient assembly of a large fragment of monkeypox virus genome as a qPCR template using dual-selection based transformation-associated recombination
March 17, 2021
A tabletop exercise is held simulating a global monkeypox pandemic triggered by a bioweapons attack starting in May 2022.NTI | Bio, Munich Security Conference Convene Global Leaders for Annual Tabletop Exercise on Reducing High-Consequence Biological Threats
Tabletop exercise scenario:
A localized bioweapons attack (on May 15, 2022) with a genetically engineered monkeypox virus begins in the fictional country of Brinia. Over 18 months, the scenario evolves into a globally catastrophic pandemic, leaving 40% of the world’s population infected and over a quarter billion people dead.
https://www.nti.org/news/nti-bio-munich-security-conference-convene-global-leaders-annual-tabletop-exercise-reducing-high-consequence-biological-threats/
Commentary from the organization that hosted the monkeypox tabletop exercise can be found in the link below:
https://www.nti.org/news/nti-statement-and-frequently-asked-questions-regarding-the-nti-munich-security-conference-2021-tabletop-exercise-on-reducing-high-consequence-biological-threats/
October 18, 2019
Event 201 - Coronavirus Pandemic Tabletop Exercisehttps://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/about
NOTE: Various articles show that SARS-CoV-2 seems to have been circulating in the world before the exercise.
As we all know, SARS-CoV-2 activity in the USA really took off in 2020.
Notes:
The report which was released following the monkeypox pandemic exercise, which includes the scenario timeline, can be found in the link below:
https://www.nti.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NTI_Paper_BIO-TTX_Final.pdf
Coverage of a 2017 speed up of monkeypox viral mutations and two vaccines can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QstOeAdBHiY
Resources for monkeypox stats:
https://ourworldindata.org/monkeypox
https://www.monkeypoxmeter.com/
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