Smallpox vaccine for monkeypox: U.S. has 100 million doses stockpiled that could protect against monkeypox
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In total, the government has more than 100 million doses of another smallpox vaccine called ACAM2000, CDC officials said.In addition, the FDA has also approved two therapeutics to treat smallpox, called TPOXX and Tembexa. "Containing an outbreak of monkeypox should be far less challenging than Covid-19," said Dr. Peter Hotez, the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and a co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital. Germany also ordered 40,000 doses of Imvanex to deploy if its outbreak gets worse.The vaccine is made from a modified, nonreplicating form of the vaccinia virus, which is part of the same family as monkeypox and smallpox. Dr. Rosamund Lewis, the head of the WHO’s Smallpox Secretariat, said past research has shown that the smallpox vaccines used decades ago "were protective against monkeypox about 85 percent of the time.""We now have new vaccines because, although smallpox was eradicated, research has continued for the last 40 years," she added.Unlike the coronavirus, monkeypox is associated with a telltale rash that should make contact-tracing efforts easier. "We’re not going to see all these variants coming out." But, she added, the fact that the public stopped getting smallpox vaccines decades ago means more people are now susceptible to monkeypox.
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