Brighton monkeypox vaccine: Jabs run out in city a week after Pride weekend
Rollout of the modified smallpox jab for monkeypox in Brighton has been paused until further stocks have arrived. Only people with existing appointments will be able to get a dose (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 12, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
FDA Recommends New Monkeypox Vaccine Strategy to Stretch Supply
On August 9, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a new way of administering the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine. The move allows doctors to give patients smaller doses in order to get more shots out of each vial and protect more people quickly. It’s the latest step in the federal government’s response to the growing monkeypox outbreak, which it declared a public health emergency on August 4.
While the government has shipped nearly 620,000 doses of vaccines around the country so far, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates about 1.5 million ...
Source: TIME: Health - August 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate monkeypox Source Type: news
What to Know About the Monkeypox Drug TPOXX —And Why It ’ s So Hard to Get
Monkeypox, which federal officials declared a public health emergency on August 4, is not as contagious as the other ongoing public health emergency in the U.S.: COVID-19. Monkeypox primarily spreads through contact with infected skin lesions. Theoretically, containing monkeypox should therefore be more feasible, as long as testing, vaccines, and treatments are accessible. But in reality, the rollouts of all three approaches have faced major challenges. Getting the antiviral drug tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, is particularly difficult.
Here’s what to know about the antiviral drug treatment TPOXX.
What is TPOXX?
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Source: TIME: Health - August 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate monkeypox Source Type: news
With monkeypox in the news, why are people talking about smallpox?
Smallpox was eradicated in 1980, so few people born after that year are vaccinated against it. Now the vaccine is being used to protect people from monkeypox. Here's what to know. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 9, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Jessica Roy Source Type: news
Officials Wrestle With Whether to Allow New Monkeypox Vaccination Strategy
A new way of injecting monkeypox vaccine could stretch the nation ’s supply of shots, but some experts argue that the approach has not been sufficiently studied. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - August 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sharon LaFraniere and Noah Weiland Tags: Monkeypox Clinical Trials Vaccination and Immunization Smallpox Regulation and Deregulation of Industry Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Food and Drug Administration Health and Human Services Department National Institute of Alle Source Type: news
Why Monkeypox Vaccine Shortage May Threaten the Immunocompromised
People with H.I.V. and other immune-system problems may need the full two-dose regimen, researchers say. But the shots, particularly second doses, are hard to come by. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - August 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: Monkeypox Clinical Trials Vaccination and Immunization Smallpox Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Immune System Viruses Shortages your-feed-science Source Type: news
The U.S. Declares Monkeypox a Public Health Emergency. Here ’ s What That Means
On August 4, the U.S. federal government declared monkeypox—with more than 6,600 cases in the country—a public health emergency. Monkeypox is now the second simultaneous public health emergency in the U.S.; the other is COVID-19.
The emergency status allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, more discretion in accessing additional funds and resources for the outbreak, including personnel to combat it. That could lead to increased testing as well as more vaccine doses. Several states—including New York, which currently has about a quarter of U.S. cases—have already declared s...
Source: TIME: Health - August 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate monkeypox Source Type: news
Smallpox and monkeypox: the green book, chapter 29, UKHSA (updated 3rd August 2022)
The chapter has been updated to include revised advice on deferral of vaccination in recent cases, information on using intramuscular administration, and a change in the definition of vulnerable children
3 August 2022Revised to include advice on deferral of vaccination in recent cases, information on using IM administration, and change to definition of vulnerable children.
21 June 2022Revised to include information on the new smallpox (MVA) vaccine and the response to cases of monkeypox. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - August 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Your monkeypox questions answered as vaccine access expands
Editor's note:This story was originally published July 25 onUCLA Health's Connect blog. It was updated Aug. 2.As monkeypox spreads across the United States, there are now documented cases in Los Angeles County. As of July 25, there were 162 confirmed cases in Los Angeles County and at least 3,400 cases in the United States, prompting fears of another coronavirus-style outbreak.Monkeypox, however, is an entirely different virus. It is not a respiratory illness like COVID-19, notes Dr. Omai Garner, director of clinical microbiology for UCLA Health.“It’s a different disease and it’s not the kind of thing that trans...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - August 3, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
How the Monkeypox Virus Does —and Doesn ’ t —Spread
Until recently, monkeypox rarely spread from person to person. In 2005, a study declared a cluster of six cases in the Republic of Congo “the longest uninterrupted chain of human monkeypox fully documented to date.”
That has changed, to say the least. So far this year, more than 25,000 monkeypox cases have been recorded across 83 countries—and human-to-human transmission is clearly happening at large scale.
How does monkeypox spread among people? Research is ongoing, and findings around monkeypox transmission may develop over time. But here’s what the latest science suggests.
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Source: TIME: Health - August 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate monkeypox Source Type: news
Symposium on Monkeypox Stigma Interrupted by Protesters
(MedPage Today) -- MONTREAL -- A symposium on the status of the monkeypox outbreak at the International AIDS Conference was briefly interrupted by protesters demanding that the U.S.'s stockpile of smallpox vaccines, which could be used to prevent... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - August 2, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: news
What It Really Feels Like to Have Monkeypox
Since the global monkeypox outbreak began in May 2022, more than 22,000 cases have been confirmed in countries around the world. More than 5,000 of those cases have been recorded in the U.S., with many clustered in hotspots including New York and California. The virus, which often results in a blister-like rash and spreads through close contact, has so far predominantly affected men who have sex with men.
Even as cases tick up and monkeypox gains public attention, however, it can still be difficult to find information about testing, treatment, and vaccines. Many people who fear they are at risk or infected are left to seek...
Source: TIME: Health - August 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme, Angela Haupt and Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate monkeypox Source Type: news
What You Need to Know About Monkeypox
On July 23, following months of rising case counts in numerous countries, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared monkeypox a global health emergency. That label is meant to prompt a coordinated global response, with the aim of getting the virus’ spread under control.
After that development on the global scale, you may be wondering what the monkeypox outbreak means for your own health. “This is an infection that we need to be aware of,” says Dr. Roy Gulick, chief of infectious disease at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian. “But pe...
Source: TIME: Health - July 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized Disease healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Monkeypox is truly an emergency. The WHO was right to raise the highest alarm | Devi Sridhar
Supporting the people most at-risk of this awful disease is the only way to reduce its impact and stop its spreadProbably the last thing you want to hear is that the World Health Organization hasdeclared another disease – this time monkeypox – to be a public health emergency of international concern.Monkeypox is a virus similar to smallpox that causes fever, swollen lymph nodes and distinctive rashes on the face, palms, the soles of the feet and genitalia. Gay and bisexual men are most at risk, as are other men who have sex with men. It can be a serious disease with the case fatality rate around 3-6%, although the vast...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 25, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Devi Sridhar Tags: Monkeypox Infectious diseases Science World news Vaccines and immunisation World Health Organization Medical research Source Type: news
EU drug regulator recommends clearing vaccine for monkeypox
The European Medicines Agency says the smallpox vaccine made by Bavarian Nordic should also be authorized against monkeypox as an outbreak of the once-rare disease sickens people across Europe (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - July 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
