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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily Oz. It is Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: the twenty sixth of July, and on today's podcasts we're

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Speaker 1: talking about another disease. Now it's not the C word,

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Speaker 1: but it is something that is proving to be highly

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Speaker 1: problematic and the who is talking about it. So we'll

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Speaker 1: take you through everything you need to know about monkey pocks.

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Speaker 1: Before we get there, Sam take us through the day's headlines.

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Speaker 2: New South Wales police are investigating an altercation between former

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Speaker 2: Deputy Premier John Barrollaro, who has been in the headlines

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Speaker 2: a lot in the last couple of weeks, and a

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Speaker 2: cameraman in Sydney over the weekend. On Monday, Barillaro said quote,

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Speaker 2: I'm being intruded on and harassed. All I did was

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Speaker 2: push a camera out of my way. I did not

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Speaker 2: manhandle an individual.

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Speaker 1: Former PM Scott Morrison will miss the first week of

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Speaker 1: parliament when it resumes today. Morrison said he'll be attending

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Speaker 1: an international event in Tokyo that was organized before the

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Speaker 1: parliamentary sitting schedule was confirmed. He will however, be back

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Speaker 1: next week to attend in the second week of settings.

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Speaker 2: Mian Mar's military has executed four democracy activists The state's

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Speaker 2: news outlet said the four men had been charged under

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Speaker 2: the counter terrorism laws and it's believed to be man

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Speaker 2: Mar's first execution in decades. In February last year, the

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Speaker 2: military seized power in a coup, overthrowing the democratically elected government.

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Speaker 1: And the good news, a new tiger assessment from the

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Speaker 1: International Union for Conservation of Nature has found there are

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Speaker 1: forty percent more tigers in the world than previously estimated.

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Speaker 1: According to the Wildlife Conservation Society, this is because quote,

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Speaker 1: many governments have really sort of moved heaven and Earth

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Speaker 1: to do massive scale surveys and we're now much better

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Speaker 1: at counting tigers.

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Speaker 3: Zara.

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Speaker 2: It feels like there's been a lot of talk about

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Speaker 2: viruses recently. We actually had a chat in the newsroom

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Speaker 2: yesterday about whether there are more viruses around at the

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Speaker 2: moment or if we're just getting better they're at naming them.

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Speaker 2: We're not even going to talk about the sea word.

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Speaker 2: But foot and mouth disease has been coming up a lot,

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Speaker 2: and now it's monkey Box's time to have some headlines.

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Speaker 2: What do we need to know about this new threat?

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Speaker 3: Yees.

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Speaker 1: So the WHO, the World Health Organization has declared monkeypox.

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Speaker 1: A global health emergency, or the fancy official term, is

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Speaker 1: a public health emergency of international concern.

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Speaker 3: We have an outbreak that has spread around the world

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Speaker 3: rapidly through new modes of transmission, about which we understand

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Speaker 3: too little, and which meets the criteria in the international

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Speaker 3: health regulations. For all of these reasons, have decided that

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Speaker 3: the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of

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Speaker 3: international concern.

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Speaker 1: There are only two other diseases with the same rating,

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Speaker 1: and that's the sea word and polio, so it's kind

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Speaker 1: of a big deal. It's actually the seventh public health

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Speaker 1: emergency the WHO has declared since two thousand and seven,

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Speaker 1: so this isn't some regular occurrence. The WHO defines a

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Speaker 1: global health emergency is when an outbreak is an extraordinary

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Speaker 1: event which constitutes a public health risk through international spread

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Speaker 1: and which potentially requires a coordinated international response. And take

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Speaker 1: me through the basics of monkey box. So monkey box

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Speaker 1: is a viral disease. It's most common in Central and

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Speaker 1: West Africa, and it can spread from person to person

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Speaker 1: by close contact through things like skin lesions, respiratory droplets

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Speaker 1: like your saliva, other bodily fluids, and things that have

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Speaker 1: been contaminated with your germs, think things like bedding or towels.

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Speaker 1: Early symptoms usually include fever and swollen lymph nodes, and

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Speaker 1: after a few days a distinctive rash appears. It can

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Speaker 1: be on the face, on your hands, feet, mouth, genitalia,

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Speaker 1: and eyes. Symptoms usually appear within one to two weeks

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Speaker 1: of infection and clear up within a few weeks. And

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Speaker 1: whilst the WHO says most cases of mild, there is

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Speaker 1: an antiviral treatment of bailable for those more serious cases,

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Speaker 1: and there is also a vaccine.

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Speaker 2: And how many cases are we talking about here?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we know. Sixteen thousand cases have been reported

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Speaker 1: so far in seventy five countries, which is a significant

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Speaker 1: increase from June when there are about three thousand confirmed cases.

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Speaker 1: The largest current outbreaks are in Spain, the US, Germany,

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Speaker 1: the UK and France, all with more than a thousand cases.

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Speaker 1: Back home here, there are currently at least forty one

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Speaker 1: cases of monkey pox, with cases recorded in every state

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Speaker 1: and territory except Hazi and Wa. Now, another thing to

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Speaker 1: note here is that according to the WHO, ninety nine

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Speaker 1: percent of cases in Spain, the UK, the US and

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Speaker 1: Canada have been among men who have sex with men.

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Speaker 1: The health advice is that while it's not a sexually

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Speaker 1: transmissible infection, transmission can occur via close physical contact during sex. Importantly,

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Speaker 1: the WHO Director General has said that quote stigma and

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Speaker 1: discrimination can be as dangerous as any virus, and he's

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Speaker 1: called on civil society organizations to work with the WHO

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Speaker 1: to keep the discussion inclusive. This has been echoed by

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Speaker 1: the Department of Health here in Australia. They've been sharing

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Speaker 1: the same sentiment about inclusivity when having a discussion about

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Speaker 1: monkey pox and sam They also say that they've had

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Speaker 1: a national response in Australia to monkey pox in place

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Speaker 1: since May twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: There's obviously a reasonable amount of anxiety when something like

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Speaker 2: this comes up in the news, especially after the couple

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Speaker 2: of years that we've had. But hopefully that kind of

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Speaker 2: explanation allowed you to understand the risks and transmissions of

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Speaker 2: monkey pox a little bit deeper. That's all I've got

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Speaker 2: time for on today's podcast, But hopefully that info helps

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Speaker 2: you understand this disease a little bit better. And if

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Speaker 2: fantastic Tuesday.