Immunizing people against monkeypox likely won’t involve a mass campaign
ase counts of monkeypox continue to grow worldwide, raising concerns about how people can protect themselves. So far, the World Health Organizationthat in 12 countries, 92 cases have been confirmed in this recent emergence of the virus, and 28 possible cases are still being investigated.
“There probably needs to be a call for the CDC to publish the decisions that the ACIP made about use of the monkeypox vaccine, given the recent cases,” says Dr. David Freedman, professor emeritus of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and president-elect of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Captain Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the division of high consequence pathogens and pathology at CDC, said during the press briefing that about 1,000 doses of the vaccine are currently available, and that Bavarian Nordic expects to ramp up production to increase that supply. In addition, on May 18, the U.S.’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority , part of the Department of Health and Human Services,for up to 13 million additional frozen doses to add to that stockpile.
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