Monkeypox

[Guest]

If you are looking for a jab the Chelsea and Hammersmith are doing them. I was trying to get one from Dean St Express who dont have appointments but the website sent me to Hammersmith. 

[Justyn]

On 9/15/2022 at 5:48 AM, Goldneye007 said:

The dosage given out now is one-fifth of the ones given out years ago due to the rationing of the vaccine; hence, 'boosters' being required now that never were needed.

Again, it is a minor issue, but, if concerned, get your shot, but only the two needed as the disease is not as severe as smallpox.  If it were for smallpox, and you required the shots available now, you must get five of them.

Luckily, smallpox is no longer an issue.

SO true.

Same issue we have at the clinic I work at in the City.  It will catch up, though (Thank goodness!)

[NWUSHorny]

On 9/16/2022 at 5:15 AM, FelchingPisser said:

Anecdotally, I wrote Silver Steele, the porn star who showed the world the lesions he had all over his face, to thank him for being honest about the realities of the virus.  He is sure that he got it at a birthday party, not a sex party, where he did no more than kiss and make out with a couple of guys that day.  There were no men there with lesions on their faces.  

Anecdotally, it was apparently spread at a cuddle party that does not allow sex of any kind here in Portland, so I agree any prolonged skin to skin contact can spread it, and that it is contagious before the lesions are visible. I have no idea why anyone would attend a party to just cuddle with strangers, but multiple cases among attendees is a pretty good indicator that it was where they caught it.

[rawTOP]

BTW, someone here didn't believe that the Smallpox vaccine that was administered 50 years ago required boosters, so here's a copy of what my mother stapled into my vaccination record back in the late 1960s…

Point being, if you weren't 15 years old when it was phased out you weren't fully vaccinated.

[spunkdump]

Finally got my 2nd Dose today in NYC- at Times Square-- i've never answered the same 5 questions 5 times ever -i would find it hard to believe if anything gets screwed up with the repeating of answers to the same 5 questions by various points during the maze to get a shot.  The shot was painless- a little bubble formed and so far i feel nothing so lets hope it takes. Can't wait- i'm horny to get out and take a test drive at end of September!  🙂

[Ocelot2000]

So I've been wanting to get the vaccine but scared that it has Doxycycline in it which I am allergic to. I was told it's just a little mount so I should be fine. Anyone know for sure? At most they said take benadryl if needed.

[EuroMusk76]

4 hours ago, Ocelot2000 said:

So I've been wanting to get the vaccine but scared that it has Doxycycline in it which I am allergic to. I was told it's just a little mount so I should be fine. Anyone know for sure? At most they said take benadryl if needed.

AFAIK there is no Doxycycline contained in the vaccine. It would be very surprising if an antibiotic which clears up bacterial infections is found in a vaccine against viruses. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist for more information.

[Justyn]

16 hours ago, rawTOP said:

BTW, someone here didn't believe that the Smallpox vaccine that was administered 50 years ago required boosters, so here's a copy of what my mother stapled into my vaccination record back in the late 1960s…

Point being, if you weren't 15 years old when it was phased out you weren't fully vaccinated.

Who cares!  It was 50 years ago!  Those people are probably dead by now.

Silly stuff to be posted on a site that flaunts disease sharing and drug use (all of which I agree with and have fun with).

[EuroMusk76]

19 minutes ago, Justyn said:

Who cares!  It was 50 years ago!  Those people are probably dead by now.

Silly stuff to be posted on a site that flaunts disease sharing and drug use (all of which I agree with and have fun with).

Although it might seem hard to believe for someone as young as you are, there is life after 50 and some members are over that age.

Moreover some of the site is dedicated to sharing pieces of information about health issues and general interest. As per the site rules 'disease sharing and drug use' should be confined to the Backroom. Please keep those discussions there.

[Justyn]

4 minutes ago, EuroMusk76 said:

Although it might seem hard to believe for someone as young as you are, there is life after 50 and some members are over that age.

Moreover some of the site is dedicated to sharing pieces of information about health issues and general interest. As per the site rules 'disease sharing and drug use' should be confined to the Backroom. Please keep those discussions there.

Why not just set up a separate site for all those 'helpful hints' rather than punish those that don't get where to say things here and get 'punished' for saying the wrong things on the wrong places (Backroom?).  All pretty stupid for a site like this to have a 'moral section', but someone can easily learn about slamming and bug chasing for fun.

Anyway, most of my encounters are over 50 as they tend to be the most open and irresponsible, which is great, especially at the Baths or sex parties around the country.

[topblkmale]

5 hours ago, EuroMusk76 said:

AFAIK there is no Doxycycline contained in the vaccine. It would be very surprising if an antibiotic which clears up bacterial infections is found in a vaccine against viruses. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist for more information.

 

gentamicin & ciprofloxacin

[tallslenderguy]

For those looking for scientific info: Published August 11,2022 in "Nature"

"As global monkeypox cases continue to soar, researchers are learning more about how the disease is spreading. Early predictions that the virus transmits primarily through repeated skin-to-skin contact between people have largely borne out, according to a tranche of new studies."

“When you put all these studies together, we see that the clinical presentation everywhere is similar — but also surprising,” says Oriol Mitjà, an infectious-disease researcher at Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain, who co-authored one of the recent studies in The Lancet1. That’s because the symptoms and pattern of spread don’t look like what researchers had observed in West and Central Africa, where the monkeypox virus has caused isolated, persistent outbreaks for decades."

"Whether monkeypox is sexually transmitted in absolute terms — passed from one person to another through blood, semen or other bodily fluids during sex — is still unclear. But several studies have found that DNA from the monkeypox virus is present in a person’s semen for weeks after they become infected2,3. One study also isolated infectious virus from a single individual’s semen six days after their symptoms appeared."

[think before following links] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02178-w

[tallslenderguy]

 

Published August 17, 2022 in "Scientific America"

"Can monkeypox be transmitted by people without symptoms?

Many cases have involved close contact between people with visible lesions or other symptoms, but there have been some reports of people testing positive for monkeypox without any obvious symptoms. In a study published in August in the Annals of Internal Medicine, among 200 anal swabs tested for monkeypox at a routine sexual screening clinic in France, 13 were positive (6.5 percent). All of the subjects in these cases were initially asymptomatic, and two subsequently developed symptoms of monkeypox infection. It’s not yet clear whether asymptomatic people who test positive are “shedding” virus that can infect others. If so, that could have implications for the current monkeypox vaccination strategy.

Other researchers published a case study of a man who developed monkeypox after traveling to the U.K. and attending a crowded outdoor event involving dancing and close contact with others who did not have obvious lesions or other symptoms. He did not report any sexual contact but said he had shared an e-cigarette with a woman at the event."

[think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/monkeypox-explained-transmission-symptoms-vaccines-and-treatment/

Edited September 20, 2022 by tallslenderguy

[BootmanLA]

7 hours ago, Justyn said:

Why not just set up a separate site for all those 'helpful hints' rather than punish those that don't get where to say things here and get 'punished' for saying the wrong things on the wrong places (Backroom?).  All pretty stupid for a site like this to have a 'moral section', but someone can easily learn about slamming and bug chasing for fun.

Anyway, most of my encounters are over 50 as they tend to be the most open and irresponsible, which is great, especially at the Baths or sex parties around the country.

This site, this site's rules. If you don't like them, you don't have to stay.

You are posting within the "HIV/AIDS & Sexual Health Issues" forum - on a site called "Breeding Zone". The site is not "Spreadingdisease.com" or "HowToGetHIV.com" - it's a site about, at its core, sex without condoms. If the point of the site were solely about chasing HIV - an acceptable but by no means mandatory topic - then discussions of PrEP, etc. would be off-limits as contradicting the point of the site.

For the record: I'm 58 years old, soon to be 59. As such, I fall squarely into that group of men RawTop was posting about - someone who had received the earlier doses of the smallpox vaccine, but because I turned 10 *after* the vaccines were taken out of the general routine for kids in 1972, I never got the doses recommended for 10 and 15 year olds. I'm EXACTLY the kind of person who might think he was vaccinated against smallpox (and thus probably monkeypox) but who isn't completely covered, and this information was and is very useful for people like me.

I realize that people under the age of, say, 35 probably think people approaching 60 are "old" and "mostly dead". Let me be among the first to disabuse you of that ageist and idiotic notion.

And as for the layout of this website: it's pretty damned clear, if you bother to read the topics/posts labeled "READ THIS" pinned at the top of various folders here. Posts about bugchasing and sex with drugs go in the appropriate forums within the "Backroom" area. I'm not sure it could be much simpler. 

[hntnhole]

19 hours ago, spunkdump said:

i've never answered the same 5 questions 5 times ever

I experienced the same thing.  Had to fill out all the same pages full of the same questions, again.  But, small price to pay, I guess.