Daily News | Pa. receives first major shipment of monkeypox vaccine, with half of the 450 doses going to Philly
of monkeypox vaccines have arrived in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, public health officials said Wednesday,450 doses of the vaccine JYNNEOS allocatedNew Jersey has been allocated a total of 2,813 doses, according to HHS. Nationally, 135,000 doses of the vaccine have been shipped.remains rare. As of Wednesday, Philadelphia reported 17 confirmed or probable cases, up from 12 at the end of last week.
Pennsylvania reported 29 cases as of Tuesday, six more than the number reported Friday, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, andhad been updated since last week. Nationally, 929 cases have been identified.
A Pennsylvania HHS spokesperson referred questions about vaccine allocation to the department’s national office Wednesday afternoon.severe illness or death, but it is a painful infection that can cause rashes and painful lesions that can last up to four weeks. Monkeypox can spread through touching lesions on another person, prolonged aerosol exposure, or contact withWhile not a sexually transmitted disease,
the virus has so far largely been identified in men who have sex with men. Some public health experts have said the best way to prevent the virus is to widely vaccinate people who are in the at-risk population, rather than waiting until after someone has been exposed.
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