Is it true the monkey pox vax is really the small pox vax?
“Is it true the monkey pox vax is really the small pox vax?”
That was my impression. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared covid 19 a “pandemic.” On December 11, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first vaccine for Covid 19 for emergency use. So 9 months from the declaration of “pandemic” to approval of a vaccine can be expected.
However the FDA approved a monkeypox vaccine back in 2019. Previously there was a smallpox vaccine approved earlier that received FDA approval to be used as a monkey pox vaccine.
The smallpox vaccine can be pretty effective against monkeypox, up to 85% from my readings, but I believe this special vaccine from Europe is targeted to just the prior known variant of monkeypox, which should be even better.