Health agencies in four U.S. states are now reportedly offering monkeypox vaccines only to at-risk close contacts as a new step in the country’s response to a string of outbreaks that has so far seen 13 cases in America and between 200 to 400 cases globally.
The Bavarian Nordic-made Jynneos monkeypox vaccine is currently being offered in a limited scope to those at-risk close contact cases, mostly laboratory and healthcare workers, in Colorado, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Washington, CBS reported.
Monkeypox is a mild viral infection considered endemic to several African countries and related to smallpox. But its emergence in countries where the virus doesn’t usually spread has raised concerns. U.S. cases have been discovered in California, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Utah, Virginia, and Washington state….