Monkeypox Vaccine Gets Thumbs Up From EU Regulator Amid Race To Improve Access
Europe ’s medicines regulator endorsed expanding the label of Bavarian Nordic’s smallpox vaccine to include protection against monkeypox and the shot will now go to the bloc’s executive for final approval. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - July 22, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Robert Hart, Forbes Staff Tags: Business /business Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Breaking breaking-news Source Type: news
Why It ’ s So Hard to Get a Monkeypox Vaccine Right Now
When New York City’s department of health announced on July 12 that monkeypox vaccine appointments were available in several sites around the city, demand was so high that the scheduling website crashed. Every appointment was booked within hours, leaving many people unable to get shots.
Vaccine rollout wasn’t supposed to go like this. When monkeypox cases were first detected in the U.S. in May, experts were reassuring. They stressed that—unlike COVID-19 when it first emerged—monkeypox is a known threat, with existing vaccines that could be deployed as necessary.
But the reality has been messier. Vac...
Source: TIME: Health - July 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Vaccines Source Type: news
News Fatigue, Anti-Vax and Wars
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
Michel de MontaigneBy Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM, Jul 13 2022 (IPS) During the beginning of the pandemic, people wanted to learn more about COVID-19. Enclosed in their homes they watched with fear and fascination how the pandemic swept over the world, while comparing ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 13, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Lundius Tags: Armed Conflicts COVID-19 Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Erratum: Vol. 71, No. 22: Use of JYNNEOS (Smallpox and Monkeypox Vaccine, Live, Nonreplicating) for Preexposure Vaccination of Persons at Risk for Occupational Exposure to Orthopoxviruses: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices - United States, 2022
Erratum for MMWR Vo. 71, No. 22 (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - July 7, 2022 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Source Type: news
Monkeypox vaccination resources, UKHSA (updated 5th July 2022)
Information on the smallpox vaccination used to protect you against the monkeypox virus.
5 July 2022Clarified advice for gay and bisexual men.
1 July 2022Added ' Monkeypox: waiting for your vaccination ' (leaflet and plain text version). (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - July 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Will There Be Enough Monkeypox Vaccine?
A factory making Jynneos, the safest vaccine, has been closed since August, threatening global supplies as the virus spreads. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - July 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Vaccination and Immunization Factories and Manufacturing Monkeypox Smallpox Bavarian Nordic AS Shortages Source Type: news
Your Monkeypox Questions Answered
(MedPage Today) -- What are best practices for swabbing monkeypox lesions? Do chickenpox and smallpox vaccines prevent monkeypox? CDC experts answered these and other questions during a Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity call, while... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 30, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: news
As Monkeypox Spreads, U.S. Plans a Vaccination Campaign
States will be given vaccine doses from the federal stockpile, but supplies of the safest type are limited. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - June 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Vaccination and Immunization Monkeypox Smallpox Men and Boys Homosexuality and Bisexuality Health and Human Services Department Chelsea (Manhattan, NY) United States Source Type: news
EU regulator considers clearing smallpox shot for monkeypox
The European Medicines Agency says it will begin reviewing data to decide if a smallpox vaccine made by the pharmaceutical company Bavarian Nordic might also be authorized for monkeypox, amid a growing outbreak of the disease across the continent (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - June 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
CDC Eyes Monkeypox Vaccine for Kids as Outbreak Spreads
U.S. health officials are looking to expand use of the monkeypox vaccine for children as the outbreak continues to spread across the U.S. and in countries around the world, with more than 3,300 cases reported globally.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is developing a protocol aimed at allowing use of Bavarian Nordic A/S’s Jynneos vaccine in children, if needed, according to documents prepared for a meeting of agency advisers that took place this week. The vaccine is currently cleared for use in adults and is considered safer than Emergent BioSolutions Inc.’s ACAM2000 smallpox vaccine, which c...
Source: TIME: Health - June 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Madison Muller and Riley Griffin / Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized Disease healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Monkeypox vaccination resources, UKHSA (published 22nd June 2022)
Information on the smallpox vaccination used to protect you against the monkeypox virus. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Polio Eradication Will Take Funds and Awareness
A polio vaccinator administers the oral polio vaccine to a child in Pakistan. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ifeanyi NsoforABUJA, Jun 22 2022 (IPS) For forty days, Kunle Adeyanju – a Nigerian, Rotarian, polio eradication advocate and biker – rode for more than 12,500km from London to Lagos to raise funds for polio eradication.
Adeyanju documented his journey on Twitter, where his handle is appropriately named @lionheart1759. Indeed, it takes one with a lion’s heart to embark on such a bold adventure. People like philanthropist Bill Gates, who works on polio eradication, and the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, tweet...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 22, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ifeanyi Nsofor Tags: Africa Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Polio Source Type: news
Smallpox and monkeypox: the green book, chapter 29, UKHSA (updated 22nd June 2022)
Smallpox and monkeypox immunisation information for public health professionals.
21 June 2022Revised to include information on the new smallpox (MVA) vaccine and the response to cases of monkeypox.
20 March 2013First published. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Monkeypox update: Vaccine to be offered more widely to tame outbreak - are you eligible?
UKHSA has announced today that a wider pool of Britons will be offered the smallpox vaccine Imvanex to tame the current outbreak of monkeypox. Are you eligible? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - June 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
People at higher risk of monkeypox exposure to be offered vaccination
Some gay and bisexual men at higher risk of exposure to monkeypox will be offered the smallpox vaccine in a bid to contain the current outbreak, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - June 21, 2022 Category: Primary Care Tags: Clinical News Source Type: news
