Australia secures 450,000 new monkeypox vaccines. What are they and who can have them?
- Written by: C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
Caroline Brehman/EPA/AAPHealth Minister Mark Butler today announced Australia had secured 450,000 doses of a third-generation monkeypox vaccine, 22,000 of which will arrive later this week.
There are now 58 people with the virus in Australia.
The announcement comes after the Chief Medical Officer declared monkeypox a “communicable disease...
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