Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jul 2022
Monkeypox: a preventive vaccination offered to those most at risk of exposure
8 July 2022 - Faced with the spread of the Monkeypox virus, the kinetics of the epidemic and the difficulties of tracing the contacts of infected people, the General Directorate of Health contacted the High Authority for Health on the relevance of extending vaccination, which is currently reactive.
HAS recommends that preventive vaccination be offered to the groups most exposed to the virus: men who have sex with men and trans people who have multiple partners, people in prostitution, professionals working in places of consumption sexual. It can be considered on a case-by-case basis for professionals who have to take care of sick people.
