Hill September 24, 2024
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health advisory recommending that select travelers to countries where a certain strain of mpox is endemic should be fully vaccinated prior to going
While the agency has already been advising vaccination for those travelling to countries where clade I mpox is endemic, the CDC’s guidance this issued week specifically advises that people who “anticipate certain sexual exposures” while in those countries should be fully vaccinated with two doses of the Jynneos smallpox vaccine.
Mpox has two primary clades, or strains, known as clade I and clade II. Mpox descending from clade II is what spread through Western non-endemic countries in 2022 and is generally less lethal than clade I...
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