More on Monkeypox
In 1958, Preben von Magnus was the first to confirm the identity of the monkeypox virus and to describe monkeypox in laboratory. Monkeypox was found in crab-eating Macaques during two outbreaks of the disease in the summer and autumn of that year. A little more than thirty cases of monkeys with monkeypox were reported, more than fifty days after their arrival by ship from Singapore. There were no deaths and no monkey-to-human transmission. Not all the exposed monkeys exhibited the illness.
Interesting that his wiki page says this:
Von Magnus represented Denmark at the 1959 Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs where he explained that respiratory viruses such as influenza and the common cold were unsuitable as biological weapons.
In 1968, the WHO reported that it was not infrequent to observe outbreaks of suspected smallpox and monkeypox in laboratory monkeys at more than twenty-five biological institutions around the world and that further research was warranted to assess susceptibity in humans. It was not until 1970, more than ten years after von Magnus identified the virus, that monkeypox was first identified in humans.
Interesting coincidence–10 years after discover of the virus it was then observed in humans. Earlier research had not found ANY transmission of monkey pox to humans… One research review (link below) even stated that
The absence of human infections in the various outbreaks of monkeypox suggests that man may be comparatively insusceptible to this virus.
A read of this document is fascinating because it demonstrates how this previously unknown disease and virus spread though monkeys being studied in research facilities throughout the world, rather than natural populations….
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/266595/PMC2554549.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
REVIEW OF EARLY RESEARCH
It is notable that the first cases of monkey pox was first "discovered" in macaque monkeys, which have been commonly used in medical experiments. Macque monkeys are native to Southeast Asia.
Meanwhile the first human case of monkeypox was found in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1970. Almost 50 cases were reported between 1970 and 1979, with more than two thirds of these being from Zaire. The other cases originated from Liberia, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone.
After the initial discovery of monkeypox, and first studies, by Preben von Magnus, monkeypox was observed in captive Asian monkeys being studied throughout Europe and the US, not in Africa.
This report lists the places where outbreaks of monkeypox were being found. It just so happens that the entire disease seems to revolve around medical "research" laboratories in Canada (1), Czechoslovakia (1), Denmark (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Sweden (1), France (2), Netherlands (3), United Kingdom (49
and United States of America (11), for example :
1 Copenhagen, 1958.
2 Netherlands, 1964, 1965
3 Rotterdam Zoo, Netherlands, 1964
4 Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C.,
5 Wyeth Laboratories, Rhesus monkeys from India (no disease found in African green monkeys.)
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Summary
Monkeypox is first identified in 1958 by a medical researcher who seems to be interested in biological weapons. After the 10 years of being discovered and researched there are no human cases monkeypox being recorded. The disease seems occur in Asian monkeys (not African monkeys) and in its early years seems to occur in monkeys being kept in medical in "research" facilities located in Europe and the USA. However, the first human case occurs in Africa, where human vaccination programs are often tested and where strange new diseases seem to regularly spring up from nowhere. After the first human case of monkeypox, the disease appears to easily spread among by human to human contact.