Results of the 2021Weaponized Monkeypox Exercise: 3 Billion People Infected, 270 Million Deaths

That old (2022) headline came to mind upon seeing this earlier today at STAT News:

WHO to convene panel to determine whether mpox outbreak is a public health emergency

The director general of the World Health Organization announced Wednesday that he will convene a panel of experts to advise him on whether the expanding outbreak of mpox in sub-Saharan Africa constitutes a global health emergency.

The outbreak, which began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo but has spread recently to at least three other neighboring countries, has involved more than 14,000 reported cases so far this year alone, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, with at least 511 deaths reported....

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And the older story:

From Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), November 2021:

Monkeypox: Results from the 2021 Tabletop Exercise Conducted in Partnership with the Munich Security Conference

Executive Summary
In March 2021, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) partnered with the Munich Security Conference (MSC) to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. Conducted virtually, the exercise examined gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures and explored opportunities to improve capabilities to prevent and respond to high-consequence biological events. Participants included 19 senior leaders and experts from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe with decades of combined experience in public health, biotechnology industry, international security, and philanthropy.

The exercise scenario portrayed a deadly, global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox virus that emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months. Ultimately, the exercise scenario revealed that the initial outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered in a laboratory with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight. By the end of the exercise, the fictional pandemic resulted in more than three billion cases and 270 million fatalities worldwide....

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HT the study was out there: Matt Stoller, who points out the date of the "attack" in the theoretical pandemic:

Previously in 2022: 

Matt Stoller On Monkeypox 

Monkeypox, It's All Anyone Can Talk About

 "African Scientists Baffled by Monkeypox Cases in Europe, US"

 "Monkeypox: WHO declares highest alert over outbreak"

A New Disease Emerging In India: Symptoms Akin To Covid-19 But With Added Monkeypox-like Blisters
And it goes after kids....

"Monkeypox outbreaks in Europe linked to fetish festival and sauna superspreader event"

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