I am in favor of any potential use or instance of Brilacidin that generates IPIX funding and most importantly advances Brilacidin as an approved drug. I frankly don’t care if it is Covid, OM, UC or Monkeypox that gets us there first.
In the first several months of the CV19 pandemic there was a lot of misinformation regarding the origin, vaccines, treatment options, masking etc. This misinformation came from various sources including the press and our own government officials. We had to start a separate CV19 board to prevent the IPIX board from becoming a CV19 opinion board. IMO we should not let the IPIX board turn into a Monkeypox opinion board.
Attached is an article from the Washington Post and an article from NPR. These articles are based on early statistics and early cases of Monkeypox (MP) but like CV19, IMO more facts will surface as the virus progresses. There was a lot of misinformation on AIDS and HIV for years. IMO it is good to educate yourself on the facts but not get caught up in any single source narrative.
The WP article has some good information but also has some important omissions and/or answers:
It states that a worker in a daycare was diagnosed with MP but it also states that none of the 40-50 exposed children in that facility have tested positive to date.
It states that 5 out of 7,500 U.S. MP cases have been children that are “believed” to be the result of household transmission. It would be helpful to know how this .00067 sample size actually got the virus such as breastfeeding etc.
Of the 7,500 U.S. cases there have been zero deaths.
From the NPR article authored by actual MDs and biologists:
98% of MP cases are sexually transmitted in the gay community according to biologist Joseph Osmundson at the NY University who is gay and is leading an effort to stop the outbreak. He also stated that preliminary data of exposing a household member without sexual contact is 0.6%. SARS by comparison is more than 40%.
Queen Mary University had a similar statistic of 95% based on 500 cases of MP across 16 countries. This study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. More than 70% of these cases had lesions on or around their genitals or anus suggesting the spread through sexual encounters.
The WHO data reported a similar trend with 90% of 3,900 infected contacting from a sexual encounter.
MP is not exclusively an STD. There have been cases of MP by touching an infected MP person or contaminated surface, but it is extremely rare, especially in public places. Only 0.2% of people infected have caught the virus from a contaminated surface. Dr. Peter Chin-Hong at the U of CA SF believes you would need prolonged exposure to the virus and/or hours of repeated touching to get a non-sexual transmission of the virus.
None of the above information should be viewed as dismissing MP as anything but a very dangerous virus. HIV spread beyond initially affecting the gay community and rapidly spread through the sharing of needles, blood transfusions, heterosexual transmission, accidental contact and passed on to newborn babies. I am hopeful that Brilacidin can help treat Monkeypox as well as many other viruses and disease.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08...re-center/
https://www.gpb.org/news/goats-and-soda/2022/...u-catch-it
In the first several months of the CV19 pandemic there was a lot of misinformation regarding the origin, vaccines, treatment options, masking etc. This misinformation came from various sources including the press and our own government officials. We had to start a separate CV19 board to prevent the IPIX board from becoming a CV19 opinion board. IMO we should not let the IPIX board turn into a Monkeypox opinion board.
Attached is an article from the Washington Post and an article from NPR. These articles are based on early statistics and early cases of Monkeypox (MP) but like CV19, IMO more facts will surface as the virus progresses. There was a lot of misinformation on AIDS and HIV for years. IMO it is good to educate yourself on the facts but not get caught up in any single source narrative.
The WP article has some good information but also has some important omissions and/or answers:
It states that a worker in a daycare was diagnosed with MP but it also states that none of the 40-50 exposed children in that facility have tested positive to date.
It states that 5 out of 7,500 U.S. MP cases have been children that are “believed” to be the result of household transmission. It would be helpful to know how this .00067 sample size actually got the virus such as breastfeeding etc.
Of the 7,500 U.S. cases there have been zero deaths.
From the NPR article authored by actual MDs and biologists:
98% of MP cases are sexually transmitted in the gay community according to biologist Joseph Osmundson at the NY University who is gay and is leading an effort to stop the outbreak. He also stated that preliminary data of exposing a household member without sexual contact is 0.6%. SARS by comparison is more than 40%.
Queen Mary University had a similar statistic of 95% based on 500 cases of MP across 16 countries. This study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. More than 70% of these cases had lesions on or around their genitals or anus suggesting the spread through sexual encounters.
The WHO data reported a similar trend with 90% of 3,900 infected contacting from a sexual encounter.
MP is not exclusively an STD. There have been cases of MP by touching an infected MP person or contaminated surface, but it is extremely rare, especially in public places. Only 0.2% of people infected have caught the virus from a contaminated surface. Dr. Peter Chin-Hong at the U of CA SF believes you would need prolonged exposure to the virus and/or hours of repeated touching to get a non-sexual transmission of the virus.
None of the above information should be viewed as dismissing MP as anything but a very dangerous virus. HIV spread beyond initially affecting the gay community and rapidly spread through the sharing of needles, blood transfusions, heterosexual transmission, accidental contact and passed on to newborn babies. I am hopeful that Brilacidin can help treat Monkeypox as well as many other viruses and disease.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08...re-center/
https://www.gpb.org/news/goats-and-soda/2022/...u-catch-it
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