The importance of smallpox vaccination as a preventive measure in controlling recent outbreaks of monkeypox AarhusUni ucl UPTuks uni_tue smallpox vaccination monkeypox vaccine
By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D.Jul 4 2022Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc. In a recently published article in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, scientists have described the importance of smallpox vaccination as a preventive measure in controlling recent outbreaks of monkeypox infection.
People vaccinated against the smallpox virus are less susceptible to catching monkeypox infection. However, since smallpox was eradicated in 1980, young people aged less than 40 years are unlikely to have been vaccinated against smallpox. Preventive measures against monkeypox infection Regarding pre-exposure preventive measures, anti-retroviral treatments have shown high efficacy in reducing monkeypox transmission by 50% in real-world conditions. Vaccination against the already eradicated smallpox virus has also provided 85% cross-protection against monkeypox infection.
However, given the lack of supply, vaccine prioritization is highly required to protect high-risk people, including homosexual men. Pre-exposure vaccination of high-risk homosexual men is expected to reduce monkeypox transmission in the general population. The US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency have approved one of these recent vaccines, namely JYNNEOS, for immunization against the monkeypox virus.
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