CDC raises monkeypox alert as global cases surpass 1,000 - Level 2

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stepped up its monkeypox guidance, urging people to take extra precautions as global cases of the virus surpass 1,000

🚨 Level 2 means “enhanced caution”. Level 3 would be “avoid unnecessary travel”

The CDC originally recommended on its website that travelers wear face masks to help prevent the spread of monkeypox but later removed it.

As of Monday, 1,019 confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported in 29 countries, according to the CDC.

Monkeypox: U.S. has more than 36,000 Jynneos vaccine doses available in stockpile

• Jynneos was approved by the FDA in 2019 for treating monkeypox based on testing in animals
• First use of Jynneos in humans in US
• US has 36,000 doses on hand
  • Another 36,000 on order
  • Bavarian Nordic has 1,000,000 doses in holding for US
  • Bavarian Nordic holds raw materials to produce 16,400,000 doses for the US
• US has 100,000,000 doses of ACAM2000
  • ACAM2000 has serious side effects
  • ACAM2000 vaccine is contagious

    • you can spread it to your entire body, including eyes, which it will damage

    • you can spread the vaccine to others

      • pregnant women
      • nursing women
      • people immunocompromised people
      • people with skin conditions

      

CDC's travel advisory on monkeypox: 'Practice enhanced precautions'

• Watch -- Level 1: Practice usual precautions
• Alert -- Level 2: Practice enhanced precautions