An new study is raising concerns about the effectiveness of the monkeypox vaccine being used in the United States and other parts of the world. The work, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, found that two doses of the...
Dutch company Molecular Biology Systems (MBS), in collaboration with Amsterdam University Medical Center, and researchers from the Danish Rigshospitalet, has developed a fast typing method to trace monkeypox. The new...
Genome sequencing confirms that monkeypox cases outside Africa are all related and suggests the virus responsible may have been circulating in people since 2017 Rather than jumping to humans from animals recently, the...
Favored shot is a seemingly safer smallpox vaccine, but efficacy remains unclear In 1959, German microbiologist Anton Mayr took a strain of vaccinia, a poxvirus used to inoculate against smallpox, and started to grow it...
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are collaborating with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to investigate a case of monkeypox in a Massachusetts resident who had recently...
Bavarian Nordic A/S announced Thursday that the Company has secured a contract with an undisclosed European country to supply its IMVANEX® smallpox vaccine in response to new cases of monkeypox evolving during May 2022...
Data shows that vaccines that were used to eradicate smallpox are up to 85 percent effective against monkeypox, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). There isn’t a specific vaccine for monkeypox, but a...