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Smallpox was eradicated in the 1970s. Vaccination campaigns ceased. So people under fifty are not immune to #mpox.
Rapid treatment reduces lethality from 10% to 1%.Mining for electricity transition is particularly conducive to the creation and export of new diseases. #Syndemics can be defined as optimal social and ecological environment for generating and propelling epidemics.
Dr Camille Besombes: ‘There is an epidemic of epidemics. We've entered a new era, with a proliferation of emerging infectious diseases. […] Ebola emerged in the same economic and social context as Kivu.
(in fr) https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/france-culture-va-plus-loin-l-invite-e-des-matins/crises-sanitaires-mpox-sortir-du-traitement-d-urgence-9146038 📻🎧#transition #extraction #civilWar #militias #sexualViolence #prostitution #famine #copper #lithium #mining #wood #epidemics #pandemic #healthCrisis #monkeyPox #Kivu #Congo #Africa #Nigeria #Ebola #HIV #AIDS #COVID19 #virus #diseases #health #ecology #medicine #vaccines #globalization #mobility #exports #freeTrade #bugs #mosquitoes