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The monkey virus or monkeypox is the first disease that vaccines dealt with and is called smallpox or monkey virus because in 1958 it was found for the first time in these animals; however, it can also be found in tropical rainforest rodents and squirrels.
It is also caused by a virus transmitted from animals to people, whose fatality rate has varied greatly, according to the WHO. It can be transmitted if people come into contact “with bodily fluids from infected animals.
For example, if an infected animal bites a person or if a person inhales airborne droplets containing the virus. Transmission between people is less frequent”, according to Merck Manuals.
In this regard, from the United States have been hard at work developing monkeypox vaccines. CNN’s Laura Coates interviewed Dr. Raj Panjabi, who leads White House studies, who told the journalist.
“I am pleased to report that even with the first case in Boston at Massachusetts General Hospital, our colleagues across the government have been able to get vaccines to that hospital. And just yesterday they started offering the vaccines to health care workers who have been exposed.”
Also, Dr. Panjabi said that to treat patients who have the disease, “the first part is identify infected people and isolate them and make sure they receive care what do you need”.
“The second part is to make sure that we vaccinate those who have been exposed to infected people. If we do that over and over again, and that’s our focus in the White House and across government, then we have a better chance of ending this outbreak,” he added.
“Because the monkeypox virus is closely related to the virus that causes smallpox, smallpox vaccine can protect people from getting monkeypox”, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as reported by CNN.
The vaccine is supplied in two doses with a four-week waiting period, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Some of the side effects include pain, redness, swelling, or itching at the injection site, as well as headaches, muscle aches, and fatigue, CNN reported.
It was tested on more than 7,800 people who were given at least one dose, it is manufactured by Bavarian Nordic, a Danish company, the medium added. Since 2019 the FDA has approved the smallpox and monkeypox vaccine, known as Jynneos, Imvamune or Imvanex.
Vaccine that was studied and that showed that “in non-human primates showed protection of animals vaccinated with Jynneos that were exposed to monkeypox virus”, according to the FDA.
Meanwhile, as recorded by the media, Dr. Amesh Adalja, a scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, stated that “the viruses come from the same family, and what we have seen in previous outbreaks of monkeypox is that vaccinating contacts aborts infection or attenuates infection in people with monkeypox,” he said.
Thus, it is worth mentioning that its symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches, back pain, swollen lymph nodes, chills and fatigue. Rashes can appear, often on the face, and spread to other parts of the body, including the genitals, before going through several stages, crusting over and falling off, he reported. AFP.
So far, people who currently have it are known to identify as “gay, bisexual or men who have sex with men,” according to the UKHSA.
To date, infections have been registered in Spain, Portugal, Canada, United States, Sweden, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Belgium and France; In addition, an endemic occurs in some parts of Africa.
*With information from Europa Press.
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