Friday 27 May 2022 06:07 PM CDC panel recommends monkeypox vaccine for lab workers, health responders and ... trends now
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has put out its first vaccine guidance related to a recent outbreak of monkeypox cases across the U.S. and Europe - with health workers and others responding to the uptick in cases first in line to get the shots.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the CDC's leading experts on vaccines, issued the recommendation Friday, and it will include lab workers who research orthopoxviruses, people who work in lab testing environments, and health care personnel who are treating infected patients.
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.
Colorado today became the eighth state to report a case of monkeypox, as the tally of confirmed and suspected infections rises to double-digits
'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
