Is the alleged monkey pox really common and garden molluscum contagiosum?

You decide.

Monkey pox supposedly comes from monkeys while molluscum contagiosum is said to be a specifically human condition.

Molluscum contagiosum - Department of Health, Victorian government

Molluscipoxvirus is a member of the pox virus (Poxviridae) family.

Molluscum contagiosum is a viral disease of the skin that produces firm, smooth, spherical, pearly white papules with a central dimple. Most papules are 2–5 mm in diameter, although papules may coalesce to form larger lesions.

Lesions in adults are more common on the lower abdomen, genitalia and inner thighs. In children, lesions are more common on the face, trunk and limbs. Lesions may disseminate more widely in patients with HIV infection.

Molluscum contagiosum usually resolves within 6 months, but may persist for a few years in a minority of cases. Lesions may resolve spontaneously or possibly as a result of inflammatory responses secondary to bacterial infection or trauma.

Monkey pox - Department of Health, Australian government

Mpox illness is usually mild and people typically recover within a few weeks.

Signs and symptoms of mpox infection can include:

• a distinctive rash, lesions (bumps that turn into pimples, blisters or sores, and may burst to form ulcers or scabs)

• swollen lymph nodes

• fever

• headache

• muscle aches

• joint pain

• back pain

• chills

• exhaustion.

The rash changes and goes through different stages, before forming a scab and falling off. It can appear as lesions (pimples, blisters or sores, which can then burst to form ulcers or scabs). These can vary in size and number with as little as a single lesion to several thousand. The lesions look like blisters similar to chickenpox, but larger.

Why the fuss?

If we’re told mpox symptoms are “usually mild and people typically recover within a few weeks” why are we being bombarded with nonsense about it? We’ve been the monkey pox route before (as indicated in the image from 2010 below) and nothing came of it. How stupid do they think we are?

What do the images tell you?

So for molluscum contagiosum other than the dermal symptoms no other symptoms are listed but take a look at the images and decide for yourself.

Images on left: molluscum contagiosum

Images on right: monkey pox

On left, man with molluscum contagiosum (third image in gallery), on right, boy with monkey pox (from 2010).

On left, young child with molluscum contagiosum, on right person with monkey pox.

On left, young child with molluscum contagiosum, on right man with monkey pox.

Interesting reading

In the paper, Why avoid naming diseases after animals? The case of “Molluscum contagiosum”, the authors state that it’s wrong to name a condition in a way that seems to implicate animals unfairly such as the mollusc in the case of molluscum contagiosum while it is acceptable in the case of zoonoses (conditions spread by animals to humans) such as mad cow disease, swine flu, avian flu, cat scratch fever, monkey pox, etc. This is ironic on a number of levels:

1. As indicated above it seems monkey pox is simply the condition molluscum contagiosum (although no one on Team No Virus will be buying that the latter condition is caused by a member of the pox virus (Poxviridae) family or that there is even such a family).

2. “Molluscum” in the condition molluscum contagiosum derives from the Latin word “mollis” meaning soft because of the softness of its pustules just as molluscs are similarly named for the softness of their bodies and I doubt people are blaming molluscs for the condition although people really do believe that “monkey pox” is caused by monkeys, including the authors.

3. Based on the fraudulent science, virology, zoonoses have never been proven to be a thing. The evidence for the so-called mad cow disease indicates the condition is caused by environmental factors including high levels of manganese in combination with low levels of copper.

Thanks to

Proton Magic

for setting me on the path to find molluscum contagiosum in the comments of his post, The Down & Dirty of Monkey Pox.

Toxins including vaccines?

We can see how many skin conditions might be assigned to “monkey pox” from a variety of causes. See: The truth is always on the other side by substacker, Mary-Ann

Also interesting: Old and Fabled Toxins for the Public Are Paraded as Something Else, Ray Horvath