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Re:Goodbye smallpox vaccination, hello monkeypox (2010) by kettleballroll on Monday May 23, 2022 @01:47AM (#31475684)
It's weird in hindsight that we didn't develop a vaccine against monkeypox, if it still can be deadly. (Or did we and I am misinformed?) I guess now that we have outbreaks all over the world, it's probably too late to start another COVID like effort.
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Re:Goodbye smallpox vaccination, hello monkeypox (2010) by pvg on Monday May 23, 2022 @01:53AM (#31475707)
Because monkeypox is not highly transmissible and smallpox vaccine is effective against it. And we have a lot of smallpox vaccine.

https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/1527358140941234176

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/05/monkeypox...

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Re:Goodbye smallpox vaccination, hello monkeypox (2010) by citboin on Monday May 23, 2022 @01:54AM (#31475713)
The USG just ordered 13 million doses of Monkeypox vaccine: https://fortune.com/2022/05/19/monkeypox-vaccine-purchase-20...
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Re:Goodbye smallpox vaccination, hello monkeypox (2010) by pkaye on Monday May 23, 2022 @03:29AM (#31476208)
BARDA officials say the order was not related to the monkeypox cases.

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/20/smallpox-vaccine-order-monk...

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Re:Goodbye smallpox vaccination, hello monkeypox (2010) by christkv on Monday May 23, 2022 @01:54AM (#31475717)
There is one vaccine JYNNEOS that is effective against monkey pox
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