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Speaker 1: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily OS. It is Thursday,

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Speaker 1: the twenty sixth of May. Yesterday was a hard day

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Speaker 1: to work in the news because of the terrible events

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Speaker 1: in Texas. We're going to tell you about them in

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Speaker 1: a minute, and then today's deep dive also isn't filled

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Speaker 1: with much joy. It's about monkey pocks, which is all

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Speaker 1: a bit of our worst nightmare right now, Bush spoiler alert,

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Speaker 1: It's all going to be okay. Firstly, Zara, tell me

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Speaker 1: about Texas.

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Speaker 2: Yep So Sam a horrific day yesterday. At least nineteen

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Speaker 2: children and two teachers were killed in a school shooting.

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Speaker 2: The eighteen year old suspect was killed and is also

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Speaker 2: believed to have acted alone. The school that was targeted

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Speaker 2: teachers students aged between seven and ten years old.

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Speaker 1: We had a reaction from President Biden, who condemned yesterday's shootings,

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Speaker 1: saying I had hopes when I became president I would

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Speaker 1: not have to do this again. When in God's name

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Speaker 1: will we do what we all know in our gut

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Speaker 1: needs to be done. President and Kamala Harris said enough

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Speaker 1: is enough and urged stronger gun control.

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Speaker 2: Treasurer and now Interim Home Affairs Minister Jim Chalmers has

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Speaker 2: said he's made substantial progress on returning the Murrigapan family

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Speaker 2: to Billa Wheeler. He said progress on the family's case

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Speaker 2: would be announced very soon.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news. You're going to have to stick

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Speaker 1: with me because this one is a bit odd. But

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Speaker 1: scientists have found fossils of previously unknown species of dolphin

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Speaker 1: dating back about twenty million years in waters that once

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Speaker 1: covered Switzerland, which is today a landslocked country in the

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Speaker 1: heart of Europe. So science has found these three hundred

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Speaker 1: fossils and have now understood two new unknown species in

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Speaker 1: a landlocked country. Pretty weird, all right, Sam.

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Speaker 2: Monkey Pox just getting over COVID seemingly have something new

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Speaker 2: on our hands, but it's been in the news affair

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Speaker 2: bit and so today I just wanted to talk through

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Speaker 2: what exactly is monkey pox and whether there is cause

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Speaker 2: for alarm, which you're ready towell before with good reason.

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Speaker 2: There isn't. But at the moment, authorities are investigating more

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Speaker 2: than two hundred and thirty seven cases of this monkeypox

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Speaker 2: across the world, so across more than nineteen countries.

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Speaker 1: Already.

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Speaker 2: Belgium and the UK have introduced quarantine periods for confirmed

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Speaker 2: cases and at risk close contacts. Last week we heard

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Speaker 2: from New South Wales Health who said that they had

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Speaker 2: a probable case here in New South Wales and it

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Speaker 2: was somebody who had recently returned from Europe. So SAM,

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Speaker 2: starting from the very beginning, what is monkey pox?

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Speaker 1: So? Monkeybox is a viral disease most common in Central

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Speaker 1: and West Africa, but it's not common in the countries

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Speaker 1: where we've seen recent outbreaks. It tends to be quite

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Speaker 1: a mild illness according to the WHO, the World Health organization.

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Speaker 1: It's normally transmitted through close physical contacts with an infected

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Speaker 1: person or animal, or with material contaminated with the virus,

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Speaker 1: so think clothing or bedding. This does include the transmission

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Speaker 1: by bodily fluids or respiratory droplets, so like snot and coughing,

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Speaker 1: and contaminated material. The symptoms are similar to smallpox, which

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Speaker 1: was eradicated worldwide in nineteen eighty, but they're less severe

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Speaker 1: than smallpox. The symptoms we're talking about here include things

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Speaker 1: like a fever, intense headaches, and back pain that then

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Speaker 1: develops into a rash after a few days, and these

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Speaker 1: symptoms can last for two to four weeks. The WHO

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Speaker 1: says that only three to six percent of recent cases

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Speaker 1: have been fatal.

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Speaker 2: So the question we're all thinking, and I know I'm

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Speaker 2: not the only one, is is this the next COVID

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Speaker 2: style pandemic? I mean, we've seen, as I just said before,

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Speaker 2: some quarantine being implemented in the UK and Belgium. Can

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Speaker 2: we expect that this will lock down the whole world? Again,

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Speaker 2: I've got a good response for you here.

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Speaker 1: No. Scientists from the WHO said the virus does not

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Speaker 1: spread as easily as COVID and they don't expect this

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Speaker 1: to evolve into a pandemic. The most important point here

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Speaker 1: is that there's already a vaccine that is effective in

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Speaker 1: fighting the virus, so we can kind of skip that

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Speaker 1: whole first step that we endured during COVID. Now, this

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Speaker 1: is the same vaccine used against smallpox. It's produced by

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Speaker 1: a pharmaceutical company called Bavarian Nordic, and it's already widely

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Speaker 1: approved for smallpox and monkeypox. But the WHO believes widespread

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Speaker 1: vaccination is not actually going to be even necessary if

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Speaker 1: we can get on top of contact tracing and isolation. Incidentally,

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Speaker 1: the WHO is holding an annual conference at the moment,

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Speaker 1: and they addressed the spread of monkeypox yesterday. Here's a

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Speaker 1: bit of that press conference.

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Speaker 3: From this virus and these modes of transmission, this outbreak

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Speaker 3: can still be contained and it is the objective of

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Speaker 3: the World Health Organization and member states to contain this

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Speaker 3: outbreak and to stop it. There is for the general

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Speaker 3: public therefore appears to be low because we know that

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Speaker 3: the main modes of tryans mission have been as described.

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Speaker 1: In the past, and in Australia the sentiment is very similar.

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Speaker 1: Here is doctor Nick Coatesworth talking on the Today Show.

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Speaker 4: It's very different Carl to COVID nineteen. And as I said,

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Speaker 4: we need to it can be a serious disease. We

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Speaker 4: need to treat it with respect. But it's not, in

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Speaker 4: my view, going to move towards the same sort of

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Speaker 4: whole of nation epidemic that we saw with COVID nineteen.

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Speaker 4: But of course, our public health authorities, I mean, let's

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Speaker 4: feel for our chief health officers. They've had COVID nineteen,

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Speaker 4: they've had influenza now to deal with, and now they've

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Speaker 4: got another thing that we need to deal with in

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Speaker 4: monkey pox. But I tell you what they are world

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Speaker 4: class our public health themes in terms of contact tracing

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Speaker 4: and disease control and you know two cases in Australia.

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Speaker 4: We certainly have this under control.

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Speaker 2: So you've said it's dissimilar to COVID. What do we

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Speaker 2: know about how monkey pox actually is spreading and what

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Speaker 2: can people do to stop that.

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Speaker 1: So the first patient in this current outbreak had returned

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Speaker 1: to the UK from Nigeria, where monkey box is an

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Speaker 1: and that means it's just part of everyday life like

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Speaker 1: COVID is going to be soon for us. However, cases,

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Speaker 1: as we've said, are now spreading among people who have

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Speaker 1: not traveled to West or Central Africa, and that suggests

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Speaker 1: that local transmission is occurring. Monkey Pox is usually spread

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Speaker 1: by close contacts, and that's where this discussion of sexual

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Speaker 1: transmission is coming into it. It's been suggested as one

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Speaker 1: of the possible roots of spread, but the WHO says

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Speaker 1: that studies are needed to better understand this risk.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and other than the UK and Belgium, how are

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Speaker 2: other countries across the world reacting to the spread of the.

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Speaker 1: Virus very differently, actually, Zara, different countries are reacting in

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Speaker 1: vastly different ways. Of France and Denmark, both of which

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Speaker 1: have registered only a handful of cases have announced targeted

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Speaker 1: monkey POXX vaccination programs to curb serious infections, so they

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Speaker 1: want to vaccinate everybody who's a close contact of current cases,

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Speaker 1: and Germany has placed a bulk order for the vaccine

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Speaker 1: in preparation for what they say will be a severe outbreak.

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Speaker 1: As you said before, the UK has the most cases,

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Speaker 1: with fifty six in total, and they increase thirty six

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Speaker 1: in the last forty eight hours. Their high risk close

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Speaker 1: contacts of monkeypox have been ordered to isolate for twenty

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Speaker 1: one days, and the same rules have been applied in Belgium.

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Speaker 1: There's no sense that we're going to see the same

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Speaker 1: sort of restrictions in Australia anytime soon.

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Speaker 2: Good to end on that mildly positive note, Thank you, Sam,

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