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viking8x6

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  1. I had missed this, but it's relevant to the subject.

    Apparently a 2022 epidemiology study showed that modification of behavior in at-risk groups was probably the main force interrupting the outbreak of Mpox, and that vaccination only had a small effect.

    From an article published in Cell:

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    The World Health Organization declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern in July 2022. To investigate global mpox transmission and population-level changes associated with controlling spread, we built phylogeographic and phylodynamic models to analyze MPXV genomes from five global regions together with air traffic and epidemiological data. Our models reveal community transmission prior to detection, changes in case reporting throughout the epidemic, and a large degree of transmission heterogeneity...

    We find that mpox transmission in North America began declining before more than 10% of high-risk individuals in the USA had vaccine-induced immunity.

    [emphasis mine]

     

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  2. HPV provides long term protection (probably for life). From the CDC web site:

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    Studies suggest that HPV vaccines offer long-lasting protection against HPV infection and therefore disease caused by HPV infection. Studies of the bivalent and quadrivalent vaccines have followed vaccinated individuals for more than 10 years and have found no evidence of protection decreasing over time. Duration of protection provided by HPV vaccination will continue to be studied.

    Because the Mpox vaccines were originally intended for protection against smallpox and were later found also to be effective against Mpox (and were used for it), there are not enough long term data on those vaccines to know whether the protection is long term. However, similar vaccines against smallpox, which were used when it was still around as an endemic disease, did provide long term protection against that disease.

  3. 1 hour ago, lilloveboy said:

    You have a moderator that went through and down voted everything he was seeing from what I can tell.

    So we have an issue. Moderators should not get to vote because they can give you points and such. Funny to see it is a moderator downvoting what others are upvoting and marking with other positive type marks. This goes directly against what you said in this statement.

    From what you can tell? You provide no information about that, and it certainly didn't happen to your posts. If you're going to throw around accusations, don't be vague. That's tantamount to libel. If you're merely basing that on what someone else said, quote them rather than asserting that you can tell, which implies that you've got observations of your own.

    As for Moderators reacting differently than the membership at large, sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. No different from the reactions of various member differing, which they also do. And Moderators have a perspective that gives us additional parameters for evaluating posts. Just as an example, the single downvote I could find for any of your posts was from me. I didn't do it because of the content, I did it because that content was totally inappropriate in the Health forum. A lot of regular members don't necessarily notice which forum something is in, but Moderators do, because it's part of our job.

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  4. On 1/23/2024 at 4:09 PM, nokiax88 said:

    During my last visit they told me they are not testing anymore for STD's and only for HIV. I was a bit suprised because i think it's important to test for STD's too because i once had an STD without symptoms for example...

    Their explanation was that it is useless to threat an STD on a person while the other person is untreated. The person who get the STD would then get antibiotics whie the other person is still able to spread it. Regarding to them this can make the antibiotics useless in the future.

    The only test they do now is with urine and blood samples. (Belgium)

    In reverse order:

    If they are testing urine samples, they are testing for STDs other than HIV (in the US, gonorrhea and chlamydia are routinely tested by urine samples).

    Ignoring the fact that they are (apparently) testing for STD's, their explanation for why they are not makes no sense at all, unless we assume that the person with the STD is continuing (during and after the treatment) to have sex with the same person who gave them the STD (who still has it). Then it does make sense, because the person undergoing treatment would be continually exposed to the bacteria that cause the STD while the antibiotic was present in concentrations too low to kill it completely. But. They didn't ask you whether that was likely to be the case. And it completely overlooks the fact that the person who got tested and has the STD, if it isn't treated, could then be spreading it to others! Incompetent.

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  5. 1 hour ago, BootmanLA said:

    Your profile doesn't say where you're from, but here in the United States, at least, prescribing PrEP is normally limited to 3 months at a time and isn't renewed without proof of a negative HIV test close to the renewal date - and ordinarily, that includes testing for other STIs as well.

    That's the recommendation from the CDC. In actual practice, things are nowhere near that regimented. At least not in my geopolitical area.

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  6. 2 hours ago, hntnhole said:

     it would cause too much commotion. particularly for the moderators. 

    It's not so much the commotion, as that we (the moderators) can't read it (or not most of it) without copying and pasting into a translator. It's quite enough to try and keep up with just reading most of what's posted on the site, without that extra work!

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  7. 4 hours ago, miticax said:

    I'm still left with a few pills from a bottle that expired oct 2023

    If it still has the dessicant pack inside and hasn't been exposed to extreme temperatures, they should be OK to use.

    You might want to consider switching to Emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide if it's available where you are (easier on the kidneys). Or there's the bimonthly injection (cabotegravir).

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  8. @hntnhole - I don't think your most recent response was helpful in making this topic one that will elicit whatever thoughts the "anti-woke" crowd actually does have about the question. While I'm sure some people who use "woke" as a criticism and a denigration are the sort you describe, the purpose of this topic is to presume that right-leaning people on BZ are not of that ilk, and to ask them to help us understand where they are coming from.

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  9. 5 minutes ago, Monorchid said:

    MODERATORS: I hope you take the humour in my response

    Trust me, if I didn't have a sense of humor I'd have run screaming for the hills about 20 minutes after I started being a moderator.

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    "White Liberals" didn't know what the term meant when white right wing extremists thew it at us as an insult (isn't that the whole point of Viking's question?)

    Presumably said right wing people have something in mind as to what it means. Given that it obviously isn't what the various left-wing and historically educated responses in this topic have outlined, I'm still waiting to hear what it might be. Crickets on that so far.

    And just to further clarify my question, I'm NOT interested in what the right-wing media machine means by it. I'm interested in how actual right-wing people (who participate in this forum) understand it.

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  10. As far as I know, fictional stories about rape or non-consensual sex are allowed, within limits. They can be posted in whichever of the fiction sections is most appropriate. Note that the rules about HIV fetish, enhancements, and straight/bi/trans-fem sex all apply as usual.

    The most cogent rules are in the new "harm to the community" policy that @rawTOP put in about 3 years ago. The topic about that policy is linked below. The link points to a flowchart for deciding whether your particular topic is allowed under the policy. The part of the flowchart relevant to your question is section 4.

     

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