c/usa · by return2ozma@lemmy.world · 1yU.S. confirms first case of more aggressive strain of mpox https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/us-first-mpox-case-aggressive-strain-rcna16740329 points · 5 comments · view on lemmy.world
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Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Just in time too. Robert Kennedy Jr will in charge when this pandemic hits the states. We're fucked.
davel@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
Today is a good day to be smallpox vaccine years old.
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/49/4/489/47117/THE-END-OF-ROUTINE-SMALLPOX-VACCINATION-IN-THE
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc · 1 pts · 1y
Is there any partial immunity conferred by this? I wasn’t sure if monkeypox is a virus related enough for the vaccine to have that effect. The smallpox vaccine does nothing against chicken pox, for example
davel@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Yes, partial immunity: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/smallpox-monkeypox.html
steel_nomad@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 1y
Lol. Ooooh....another VARIANT?! Just stay the blazes home!!!