The Houston area recently received just over 5,000 doses of the JYNNEOS monkeypox vaccine...
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo speaks during a press conference about growing Monkeypox infections Monday, July 25, 2022, at Houston TranStar headquarters in Houston. Hidalgo and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner asked the federal government for additional vaccine doses due to rising, but still relatively small, numbers of cases. “We need more vaccine,” Turner said. He said they were watching growing caseloads in other major American cities.
The World Health Organization over the weekend declared monkeypox a global health emergency. Monkeypox for years has been endemic in certain parts of Africa but has spread worldwide in recent weeks, with most cases among men who have sex with men.Transmission usually requires prolonged skin-to-skin contact, although monkeypox also can spread through respiratory droplets in lengthy face-to-face contacts, or via materials — such as bedsheets or blankets — that have picked up the virus.
Even so, cases continue to rise around the world, and Turner and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo suggested at the press conference that a more preventative approach is needed in Houston. Now, the eligibility criteria has expanded to include other high-risk groups, including people diagnosed with gonorrhea or early syphilis in the last three months, or people on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis. Eligibility also includes people who have attended or worked at a commercial sex venue where anonymous sex or sex with multiple people took place in the last 21 days, according to the Houston Health Department.
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