SAN ANTONIO – Questions about the monkeypox vaccine have flooded our KSAT Trust Index inbox: “Who needs it? Is it the same as the smallpox vaccine? Will the old vaccines still work?” KSAT tapped Dr.

A study published in the journal Nature Communications finds that monkeypox (MPOX) infection induces a similar anti-viral antibody response as smallpox vaccination. MPOX is a zoonotic virus belonging ...

(The Conversation) – On May 18, 2022, Massachusetts health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a single case of monkeypox in a patient who had recently traveled to ...

Health officials are scrambling to stretch scarce doses of vaccine to slow the mounting monkeypox outbreak, but do older people already vaccinated as kids for the related but deadlier smallpox virus ...

With global spread progressing around the United States including in Washington state, there have been claims that a smallpox vaccine can be used to combat monkeypox. Claims regarding the ...

Monkeypox is an infectious disease caused by a virus similar to the one that causes smallpox. Smallpox was eradicated in the 1970s, but outbreaks of monkeypox are now emerging. Because monkeypox and ...

SAN ANTONIO — The monkeypox virus continues to make headlines around the world and in South Texas. In this Verify we take a look at the virus and whether a previous vaccine many may have received for ...

In a recent study published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, researchers at Madigan Army Medical Center assessed the characteristics of monkeypox infection in a patient vaccinated against ...

As supplies of vaccines against monkeypox remain constrained and the number of people contracting the disease continues to mount, physicians and researchers are looking to the drug tecovirimat for ...

WASHINGTON — With the ongoing monkeypox outbreak, several viewers have reached out to ask: if they received the smallpox vaccine years ago, what’s the guidance for getting a monkeypox vaccine now?

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Monkeypox isn’t a new disease. The first ...