Mpox: German school temporarily closed after case reported – DW – 12/16/2024
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Contacts have been informed after several members of a family were found to have contracted mpox. Two school-age children are among those infected.

Summary

A school in Rösrath, Germany, temporarily closed after two children from the same family tested positive for the mpox clade 1b variant.

The children, who attend a special needs school, contracted the virus from a family member who recently traveled to Africa.

All infected family members are in quarantine, and online lessons will run until Friday as a precaution.

The Robert Koch Institute confirmed the virus poses low contagion risk, requiring close physical contact for transmission. The infections are mild, and no additional cases or deaths have been reported in Germany.

  • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    so you admit you have no idea, and then make a definitive statement to NOT get vaccinated.

    I admitted that I have no idea about the epidemiological details, then made a definite statement about what the STIKO said. Which I did by quoting them, verbatim.

    to use your own argument: IF fresh-ups had negative effects, they would say so in plain words.

    It is not the job of the STIKO to not recommend vaccinations. They either recommend or don’t recommend, but they never recommend not to, that’s the job of your doctor, comparing your medical state/history against counterindications.