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.
This is how you handle infectious disease.
Nicely done, Germany.
Don’t give them too much credit. Lots of Germans acted quite stupidly during COVID (much like in many other countries).
Can confirm. Got weird looks when I said I got this years flue and COVID shot.
I mean it depends. If you followed STIKO recommendations that means you’re either >=60 or overshared your medical status.
Nope, there are quite a few additional recommendations.
…most of which are medical the other are based on increased risk of exposure.
So, yes, if you’re working retail and got sideeye that means your colleagues aren’t up to date and you should probably get the work’s council involved to themselves relay the STIKO recommendation. Arguably your employer is slacking in their duty to care. If you’re a dockworker, yeah you probably overshared. Did you share the specific reason you did it? “Because of grandma” can change people’s attitude quite quickly.
“Because I don’t like to catch or spread easily preventable and possibly deadly diseases.”
“General paranoia” is not among the STIKO recommendations. I mean you do you but don’t be surprised when others think it’s a bit excessive.
They could also vaccinate everyone at the school. I’ve had my monkey pox vaccine #gay
