Isn’t the vaccine the same as the small pox vaccine? I thought most people were vaccinated as kids.
Smallpox vaccines have not been available to civilians in the US since 1972. Smallpox was eradicated worldwide in 1977 and declared eradicated by the WHO in 1980. Unless one was in the military of a member of Congress since that time, anyone in the US younger than the mid 50's hasn't been vaccinated. Monkeypox would not have emerged 40 to 50 years ago, because almost everyone in developed countries was vaccinated, and vaccination against Smallpox used to be required for international travel to and from regions of the world where Smallpox still existed in the 1960's. I've seen the vaccine "yellow cards" my grandparents kept with their passports in the 1960's. No children have been vaccinated against Smallpox since October 1977. That's almost 45 years.