Lassa fever, another Mpox coming? There is no vaccine. Questions not being asked. After HIV and mpox, a 3rd tropical disease impacting us?
Science magazine article, "A deadly viral illness is exploding in West Africa." Spread by exchange of bodily fluids, but also in other ways.
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To avoid panic, and to emphasize this is a prelimary alert.
We don’t know that Lassa fever will disproportionately impact Gays.
We don’t know that it will leave West Africa.
This is just a preliminary alert. I will explain why I am doing this alert in the article.
“A deadly viral illness is exploding in West Africa” – Science magazine.
This is the article from Science magazine, one of the two most credible science magazines in the English language. (I will put a link to good science sources at the end of this post.)
There is a severe outbreak of Lassa fever.
If you read online reports it looks like the fatality rate is 10 to 15%, but the Center for Disease Control (CDC) says it is actually about 1%. The reason is that health care systems are poor and people don’t go to doctors or hospitals unless they are sick.
It can be spread by bodily fluids. It is contagious. People taking care of patients get it if they aren’t careful. From the CDC article.
Direct contact with infected rodents is not the only way in which people are infected; person-to-person transmission may occur after exposure to virus in the blood, tissue, secretions, or excretions of a Lassa virus-infected individual. Casual contact (including skin-to-skin contact without exchange of body fluids) does not spread Lassa virus. Person-to-person transmission is common in health care settings (called nosocomial transmission) where proper personal protective equipment (PPE) is not available or not used.
https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/lassa/transmission/index.html
However, I think that it is more easily spread than the above section of the CDC article might suggest to a reader.
It is very contagious. At the 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital four people died. Three were medical personnel. These four deaths are attributed to exposure from one patient at the hospital who had Lassa fever.
https://guardian.ng/news/anxiety-over-fresh-outbreak-as-lassa-fever-kills-five-in-kaduna-rivers/
There is no vaccine. Like mpox, it is another tropical disease that is ignored by Western governments and pharmaceutical companies.
Why worry that it might this be another mpox?
Though most of the cases in West Africa are thought to come from a local rodent they have, there is human-to-human ways of spreading it.
[1] It is spread by the exchange of bodily fluids. Quoting the article, “secretions and excreations,” like sweat, and whatever fluids you get from kissing or giving a blow job. Given the deaths of three medical personnel and a soldier at a hospital receiving a sick patient, I suspect it is fairly easy to get it from ordinary handling of a person.
[2] Mpox wasn’t considered an STD in Africa and it was something that impacted the general population, not specifically men who have sex with men (MSM). It is somewhat unpredictable what a tropical disease will do outside the tropics.
[3] Viruses evolve and they change. As opportunities and circumstances for transmission change, viruses evolve to adapt. So though it initially might not specifically target Gay men in the West, it might adapt to exploit some opportunity for spreading in the Gay community.
It was a real surprise to the medical community that mpox impacted almost entirely MSM persons. It wasn’t expected.
Why this alert? What you need to watch out for.
It took awhile for the medical community to realize that mpox was targeting MSM. Here in Dallas there were Respectability Gays saying mpox wasn’t a Gay disease despite the stats showing that it was. As a result:
There was a lag in recognizing that it was an issue, and
There were Gays giving a counter message that it wasn’t a specific risk to Gays.
The U.S. government was somewhat lax in response. Our local Respectability Gay paper didn’t do much reporting on it.
After mpox there hasn’t been any discussion about what tropical diseases might next impact Gays. The LGBTQXYZ leadership seems to be squeamish about Gay sexual activity.
So you need to be on alert for these things.
Reports of Lassa fever in Europe or the United States.
Reports of Lassa fever disease clusters involving Gay men.
My updates on Lassa fever.
Don’t rely on your local Gay paper to give these developments prominence in reporting on them.
If it turns out that the Lassa fever epidemic is subsiding or is over, I will have an all clear.
Could there be another tropical disease like mpox?
There are a lot of tropical diseases and they are capable of evolving. Mpox was evolving and researchers in Africa were warning the West that it was changing, in particular it seemed to be developing some STD characteristics.
So far the Gay community has been hit by two tropical diseases, HIV and mpox. It would be foolish to thing that there isn’t another one coming.
I have a more detailed report on mpox in this newsletter.
Again, no one is asking these questions. The LGBTQXYZ Dems are busy focused on vote harvesting, and there isn’t much focus on Gay issues in the LGBTQXYZ social worker establishment (It is up to 14 letters when I last checked.)
If you read the scientific press, you learn that there are very many diseases out there in the tropical world and likely to be newer ones as humans push into previously unoccuped areas to engage in agriculture or economic activities to survive.
I plan to keep an eye out for emerging potential STDS.
No one else is looking at this, so I will do the best I can. I am not an expert so there might be false alerts, but experts totally missed mpox until it started to hugely impact Gays.
What is the Gay Agenda on Tropical Diseases.
[1] Develop vaccines for tropical diseases make sure there is an adequate supply. This will not only benefit Gays, but a disease might impact the general population, and of course people in tropical areas would benefit.
[2] Focus on treatments for people who do get a tropical disease.
[3] Have some medical body focused on examining what might be the specific risks to the Gay community of tropical diseases.
[4] Have the Center for Disease Control to be on the alert when a new disease is impacting the Gay community.
The Gay community should always getting all the relevant vaccinations for all diseases, tropical or not tropical. The demographic most likely to not want vaccination are homophobic Christians. This would give us an advantage over them.
Conclusion
Don’t get excited or alarmed. This post is to just to make you aware of a possible development. So you pay attention if you hear of a case of lassa fever in Europe or Asia or North and South America.
Also, if I have a post updating that status regarding lassa fever you pay attention.
I think it would be good that we start raising the issue of tropical diseases and the Gay community with leaders.
I did write my local congressional representative, but I didn’t get an answer. Perhaps if more people wrote letters they might get an answer.