MonkeyPox and it's low likelihood of natural evolution
Biowar season is upon us.
Good morning. This is a development worth a post. Perhaps I won't send any other today or maybe one way later in the day.
This is one of the reasons I don't jump to conclusions without evidence, even if I have to connect the dots further after circumstantial evidence.
What does this “science talk” means ? It means the current strain of smallpox could NOT have evolved with the current changes, these rapid changed indicate a human hand, or as Kevin put it, serial passaging.
I am having flashbacks to the early talks about SARS-CoV-2. In my opinion someone (*cough Bill Gates cough*) is getting desperate.
I hope everyone has a good day and week and this isn't cause for alarm. Just that, multiple outbreaks globally are highly unlikely for anything natural. (Someone graph analysts that are bad at bad will tell you otherwise)
Thank you for the update and links. Based on early media reports, I was under the impression that the current Monkeypox was just about the same as those from Israel, United Kingdom and Singapore from 2018/2019. The "differences" seem to be quite significant.
https://virological.org/t/multi-country-outbreak-of-monkeypox-virus-genetic-divergence-and-first-signs-of-microevolution/806
https://virological.org/t/discussion-of-on-going-mpxv-genome-sequencing/802/2
FTA: "A while back we estimated the rate of evolution of variola virus (VARV; the smallpox virus) to be about 1x10-5 substitutions per site per year (Firth et al, 2010) which would translate into about 1-2 nucleotide changes per year. This is at the high-end of estimates (see the paper for others). However Monkeypox may not have exactly the same rate of evolution."
Thanks so much for the update. 👍🏼🙏🌷