The Danish government originally stated they weren’t going to release them because of the concern of a smallpox terror attack, which is a constant hypothetical threat, according to Rasmussen.
Research Scientist Dr. Margaret Mills sets up an instrument that extracts DNA for Monkeypox virus testing at the UW Medicine Virology Laboratory on July 12, 2022 in Seattle, Washington. The UW Medicine Virology Laboratory is one of a handful of clinical reference labs in the country to offer laboratory-developed PCR tests for the detection of the Monkeypox virus. The U.S.
“It’s the reason why we stockpile these vaccines in the first place,” said Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan. “But I think that’s a really bad argument because that’s a very hypothetical threat that’s never happened over the last 50 years. And this is a crisis that’s happening right now in our midst.”
“The vaccine available is a second-generation smallpox vaccine that also is approved for monkeypox,” said Rasmussen. “So as those doses have begun to be released, we do have another 100 million doses stockpiled of another vaccine, called ACAM2000. That’s a first-generation smallpox vaccine, but it’s not approved against monkeypox and it actually has a pretty unfavorable profile for side effects.
“Essentially, [monkeypox] is a rash of these large blisters that become full of pus, and then they turn into scabs and scab over. When the scabs fall off, the person is no longer contagious,” said Rasmussen. “Now, monkeypox is transmitted by actual direct contact with these blisters, or these pustules, or the fluid that’s within them.
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