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.

  • Muehe@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Influenza

    • There are no known serious side effects in regard to Influenza vaccination which can be linked to the vaccine itself

    Now that’s just wrong:

    In patients with H[eart]F[ailure], influenza vaccination was associated with a reduced risk of both all-cause and cardiovascular death after extensive adjustment for confounders. Frequent vaccination and vaccination earlier in the year were associated with larger reductions in the risk of death compared with intermittent and late vaccination.

    SCNR, you didn’t specify adverse side effects. :P