![]() ![]() Bullous pemphigoid is an autoimmune skin condition that results in large, fluid-filled blisters that tend to develop on crease on your skin on your lower abdomen, upper thighs and armpits. Secondly, any attempt to suggest that bullous pemphigoid and monkeypox are the same thing would be full of lesions. Isn’t that a bit like someone choosing “sexy” or “beautiful” as a nickname on a dating site? You probably aren’t going to say, “oh, that person must be sexy.” If you claim that you want to seek the truth, at least identify who you truly are. Umm, first of all, beware of anything or anyone that tries to call itself “Truth”-something these days. For example, here’s what Forbes contributor Vicky Forster, PhD, tweeted a monkeypox case in the U.K.: Plus, Jones’s argument breaks down further when you realize that not everyone affected by the monkeypox outbreak even received the AstraZeneca or J&J Covid-19 vaccines. Scientists have known that this virus can cause monkeypox ever since the early 1970s, or over 1600 Scaramuccis ago. So, why is Jones trying to find another cause for the monkeypox outbreak when the real cause is already pretty darn clear? The culprit is a double-stranded DNA virus that’s part of the Orthopoxvirus genus and the Poxviridae family. And the virus certainly won’t turn you into a monkey should you get infected. As Hotez explained, the monkeypox name came from the fact that the virus which causes monkeypox was first found in 1958 in a NHP, which stands for “non-human primate” and not “no hot dogs please.” Although this virus can infect monkeys, it mainly circulates among rodents. As I described on May 8 for Forbes, despite its name, monkeypox really doesn’t have a whole lot to do with monkeys. In fact, Jones seemed to be monkeying around way too much. Oh, and they don’t inject the “genome of a chimpanzee in to your cells,” as Jones claimed. Both vaccines use non-replicating adenoviruses, meaning viruses that are not able to reproduce. Hotez emphasized that the J&J vaccine doesn’t even use a chimpanzee adenovirus as Jones claimed and instead uses a human adenovirus. ![]()
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