After making smallpox disappear for several decades, vaccination could still be the solution to fight monkeypox according to an expert.
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“It is a virus that disappeared 50 years ago. We kept a reserve of these vaccines, in case there was a resurgence of this disease. There, it comes back through another door since it is the simian pox, it is a virus which is of the same family”, mentions the retired virologist, Jacques Lapierre.
Positive effects in the past suggest that monkeypox will not be able to survive significant vaccination of vulnerable clientele.
“At the time, the vaccine avoided contracting the disease and I believe it will be the same with this virus,” he says.
Unlike COVID-19, monkeypox comes from a virus that does not or hardly evolve over time and that is why the vaccine is highly effective.
“Vaccines that are available at the moment become effective after one week and a single dose. Ideally, a second dose of vaccine should be given after 28 days, but there is a scarcity of vaccine doses on the market,” explains this expert.
See the explanations of this retired virologist in the video above.