Posted on 08/18/2022 12:59:23 PM PDT by Red Badger
The CDC said Monkeypox is closely related to the virus that causes smallpox, and smallpox vaccines can provide some protection against Monkeypox.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — With monkeypox cases climbing across the U.S. and in the Carolinas, many people who were vaccinated for smallpox have been asking if that vaccine will protect them from monkeypox.
WCNC Charlotte's VERIFY team got this question from viewer Lynda O.:
"Does the smallpox vaccine given to children prior to 1972 confer immunity to Monkeypox?"
OUR SOURCES:
South Carolina State Epidemiologist Dr. Lynda Bell
The CDC
The CDC said monkeypox is closely related to the virus that causes smallpox, and smallpox vaccines can provide some protection against monkeypox.
Right now, the two smallpox vaccines on the market are also being used to protect against monkeypox and given to people who are considered high risk. The CDC said past data shows the smallpox vaccine is 85% effective in preventing monkeypox.
But what happens if you got the smallpox vaccine decades ago? The CDC said routine smallpox vaccinations stopped in 1972 after the disease was eradicated in the U.S., which means smallpox vaccines are no longer routinely given to the general public.
Bell said although smallpox vaccines do help against monkeypox, scientists are still looking into how long that protection would last and whether people who got the vaccine before 1972 are still protected.
"We don't fully understand whether or not individuals will receive full protection from previous vaccination, especially from decades-passed smallpox vaccination," Bell said.
However, the CDC does note that in a 2003 monkeypox outbreak, some people who received the smallpox vaccine decades before, were infected.
Bell said researchers will continue studying this to see how long the vaccine can provide protection.
"We do believe that previous smallpox vaccination may provide some immunity that hasn't been studied widely," Bell said.
The CDC states if a person was exposed to monkeypox and has not received a smallpox vaccine within the last three years, they should consider getting vaccinated.
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As long as you don’t go in through the out door.
I’m guessing what kind of people are asking that question right now.
Only YOU can prevent butt fires
I’m asking a different question: Why should we take Deep State’s word for this being monkeypox?
Guessing Meghan Bragg is a tranny to be worried about Pride Pox.
NO!
I had the vaccine in elementary school.
2 years later i got infected.
BUt the vaccine must have created anti-bodies in me.
Because I recovered in a week from a 30%+ mortality disease.
My lifestyle allows me to be perfectly confident that the smallpox vaccination I got in 1955 will prevent my catching monkeypox.
“The CDC said past data shows the smallpox vaccine is 85% effective in preventing monkeypox.”
So, it is about 85% more effective than the clot shot, which they wanted the whole world to have.
Translation: yes but it’s not known in detail how many may get it it or how much the disease is mitigated in those vaccinated before 1972 if they do get it.
The key being yes it does protect but nothing in biology is absolute.
I’m honestly not worried about monkey pox
Only small monkey monkeypox, obviously.
Marmoset monkeypox, for example. Not Gorilla monkeypox.
RE: smallpox vaccines can provide some protection against Monkeypox.
What does “ some protection “ Mean? Can somebody please explain? Is there any way to quantify this?
It must mean you would get less severe sores on your butt...................😜
If you ever had one is it still good ...
I had to get one 50 years ago to IMMIGRATE to America ...
yes there was a time long long ago when people had to IMMIGRATE ...
a smallpox shot was one of the requirements ...
I got the original one in school in the 60’s, then a booster in the Marines in the 70’s.......................
It should still be good, right.
My understanding is there is a 10 year immunity after getting smallpox vaccine. I got my second shot in 1971 so I could return to the US after going to Europe.
I got the Trump Vaccine and I no longer worry
about the DonkeyPox. Now we have to just eradicate
it in the rest of the country...
The vaccine uses a virus called “vaccinia”, which is an Orthopoxvirus. Originally, thought to have been a cowpox, our oldest samples seem closer to a horsepox. Historically, cows were the host of the original virus, which they then changed to horses. So we really do not know what the original vaccine virus was, just what the virus used was 100 years ago. And yes, the smallpox vaccine and monkpox vacine are both based on “vaccinia.”
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