UK orders 150,000 mpox vaccine doses amid spread of new strain in Africa

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/uk-orders-mpox-vaccine-spread-new-strain-africa

Posted by Empty_Sherbet96

3 Comments

  1. >the virus, formerly known as monkeypox

    Renaming it mpox didn’t really work if its just getting the prince treatment.

  2. AtillaThePundit on

    Desperately want the anti vax crowd to catch this and learn a valuable lesion about lesions 😂 i know it’s wrong, I don’t care , they don’t care so they’re fair game . Bring on the POX !

  3. Before anyone panics – 

    The science on this is quite clear. Extremely unlikely to become endemic in the UK, more or less impossible it will become like COVID.

    We’re just prepping because we didn’t last time. The UK population is 70 million. 150k doses is nothing and within the realms of a large scale trial “just in case” it suddenly becomes airborne and deadly, an unlikely combo for a virus.