Gay men, especially those with multiple partners or who have participated in group sex, will be the main target in the UK’s monkeypox vaccination campaign, the Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said.
In a vaccination strategy published on Tuesday, the agency said although anyone can contract monkeypox, the current outbreak is “primarily in gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM)” who have “largely been located in the London area.”
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended that GBMSM be offered smallpox vaccines “as soon as feasible,” given they are “at highest risk due to a large number of contacts,” the UKHSA said….