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OneHumanPeOple t1_ixosium wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in UK study suggests single dose of monkeypox vaccine is 78% effective by tonymmorley

You’re spreading misinformation. There are children who have contracted it from other children. There have been workers who contracted it from handling money passed to them by contagious customers. Cats have gotten it. None of these cases were from sexual contact.

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elliothyoung t1_ixosygi wrote

Fomite transmission is extremely rare. That’s a fact.

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OneHumanPeOple t1_ixouzxp wrote

These cases didn’t arise from

>male-male butt-sex.

So how was not engaging in that behavior

>100% effective?

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elliothyoung t1_ixox1ci wrote

They’re so rare they are statistically insignificant, thus, statistically, they’re not different from zero. Therefore, it is a waste of time to consider them. We don’t make policy on outliers.

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