Principia Scientific

Written by needtoknow.news

The panel that advises the CDC recommended that shots be given to lab workers and health care workers that may be exposed to the virus in their work. Ten cases of the virus have been detected in the US so far, with nine of them confirmed by the CDC that is using flawed PCR tests that are not intended to diagnose disease.

Monkeypox is said to be transmissible through close skin contact with someone who has a active rash or through respiratory droplets with someone who has lesions in their mouth and are around another person for an extended period of time. Nine of the ten cases reported were men who have sex with men as the vast majority of infections are in gay and bisexual men.

The JYNNEOS vaccine in question is tailored to both smallpox and monkeypox – just as many other smallpox drugs are also believed to be effective against the rare virus.

It comes as the U.S. records its tenth presumptive case of the virus, with a man in Colorado having a suspected infection after a recent trip to Canada, state officials announced Thursday night.

‘Certain laboratorians and health care personnel can be exposed to orthopoxviruses through occupational activities,’ ACIP wrote in its report.

The panel notes that orthopoxvirus vaccines, like JYNNEOS, were regularly distributed to children in the U.S. to combat smallpox in the past.

Smallpox, a highly devastating, deadly, virus, was eradicated in 1980, though, and use of the vaccines has since been dropped from mandatory to scarce.

Officials still recommend that some parts of the population do continue to receive the shots, though, including people who may be exposed to these viruses at work.

America has a stockpile of over 1,000 doses of the two-dose vaccine in place for a situation like this.