Post Reply - Climate collapse=pandemics !!!!!!

   DJ The 2022 global outbreak of Mpox was linked to the West African variant/clade...Mpox has been a problem in Africa for decades...HIV/AIDS, population growth/urbanization and CoViD may all be factors for "Mpox getting out of cotrol" in 2022...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpox_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#2023-2024_outbreak or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpox_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#2023-2024_outbreak ;
2023–2024 Central Africa outbreak
During 2023, a clade I outbreak of mpox disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) resulted in 14,626 suspected cases being reported, with 654 associated deaths, making for a case-fatality rate of 4.5%. The outbreak continued into 2024 with an additional 3,576 suspected mpox cases and 265 deaths being reported in the DRC through the first 9 weeks of the year, making for an estimated CFR of 7.4%.^[91]
Transmission of the virus in the outbreak appears to be primarily through sexual and close familial contact, with cases occurring in areas without a history of mpox, such as South Kivu and Kinshasa. An estimated 64% of the cases and 85% of fatalities have occurred in children. The outbreak seems to consist of two separate sub-variants of clade I, with one of the sub-variants having a novel mutation making detection with standard assays unreliable.^[91]^[92]
The outbreak spread to the neighbouring country of the Republic of Congo, with 43 mpox cases being reported in March 2024.^[91] By early August the outbreak spread further into central and southern Africa with cases reported in Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa.^[66]^[16]

DJ...Mpox clade 1B is now seen as a continental risk for Africa...In part it still may have some links with the 2022 global outbreak however this form of (Central African) Mpox is different-more dangerous-than the 2022 (West African linked) global outbreak...

One could argue that above mentioned factors/reasons (HIV-AIDS, urbanization/overpopulation) and ongoing wars explain a second major Mpox outbreak...

One of the very sad aspects of most wars is massive rape of women resulting in further spread of S.T.D. (Sexual Transmitted Diseases)...But also war is not new for Africa...

Rich countries often stay rich by keeping poor countries poor...Poverty=hardly any basic healthcare...Mega-cities in Africa may have populations of over 10 million people...

So, a second major outbreak of Mpox only may be explained with climate issues on top of many other "old" factors...Africa was a "hard place to be born in" and worsening global climate is making matters only worse...