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The CDC is sending monkeypox vaccines (or less safe smallpox vaccines?) to people at high risk in a race to prevent the spread

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Mary Wilson

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PUBLISHED SAT, JUN 4 20229:45 AM EDT

Spencer Kimball

The Biden administration has distributed 1,200 monkeypox vaccine doses for people who have had high-risk exposures to the virus, part of a nationwide public health response to stamp out the disease before it causes a major outbreak.

U.S. health officials, worried the virus is spreading faster than previously thought, have said the global outbreak of monkeypox is the largest ever. The World Health Organization said Wednesday that there are now more than 550 cases across 30 countries. In the U.S., at least 20 confirmed or suspected cases have been reported in 11 states, including California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Utah and Washington state, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“A monkeypox outbreak of this scale and scope across the world, it has not been seen before,” Dr. Raj Panjabi, who leads the White House pandemic preparedness office, told reporters on a call last week. ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/04/the-...he-spread.html
 
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Do we know if they are distributing the more dangerous smallpox vaccine that is unapproved by the FDA for monkeypox or the newer - thought to be safer - Jynneos vaccine that is approved?
CDC says (lying?) that we only have 1,000 approved vaccines so short 200. Bavarian Nordic says we have more than a million approved vaccines? Are they holding those back and for whom?

Last week, CDC official Dr. Jennifer McQuiston said the U.S. has 1,000 doses of Jynneos available. However, the Danish biotech company that makes the shots, Bavarian Nordic, said the U.S. actually has a supply of more than 1 million Jynneos frozen doses stored in the U.S. and Denmark under an order placed in April 2020. The shots have a shelf life of three years.
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Assuming it has to be Jynneos. The older smallpox vaccine has a fatality rate of about one in one million. If you're vaccinating against a 30% CFR smallpox virus, that's a price you're willing to pay. Unless the CFR of this virus increases, I can't imagine they'd risk using the ACAM vaccine against it. The reason ACAM was never deployed to prevent a smallpox terrorist attack was that the vaccination of the entire population of the US with that vaccine would kill approximately 300 people.

The older ACAM vaccine contains live vaccinia virus, which is also an orthopoxvirus and would greatly complicate the testing of these cases for monkeypox.
 
Emily. In the above article, 'The CDC is sending monkeypox vaccines to people at high risk in a race to prevent the spread', https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/04/the...igh-risk-in-a-race-to-prevent-the-spread.html , it states the following:
... Last week, CDC official Dr. Jennifer McQuiston said the U.S. has 1,000 doses of Jynneos available. However, the Danish biotech company that makes the shots, Bavarian Nordic, said the U.S. actually has a supply of more than 1 million Jynneos frozen doses stored in the U.S. and Denmark under an order placed in April 2020. The shots have a shelf life of three years.
...The U.S. had released 500 doses of Jynneos and 200 doses of ACAM2000 as of Tuesday, according to the CDC. The U.S. has also sent out 100 courses of the oral antiviral tecovirimat to the states, health officials said Friday. ...
 
Food and Drug Administration SUPPLEMENT APPROVAL May 2, 2017
...to supplement your Biologics License Application submitted under section 351(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262) for Smallpox (Vaccinia) Vaccine, Live (ACAM2000) to include additional instructions in the package insert...
https://www.fda.gov/media/105231/download
ACAM2000 STN: BL 125158
Proper Name: Smallpox (Vaccinia) Vaccine, Live
Tradename: ACAM2000 ...
May 2, 2017 Approval Letter - ACAM2000
https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/acam2000

FDA approves Acambis smallpox vaccine
Filed Under: Smallpox
Sep 04, 2007
...The FDA announced its approval of the vaccine, called ACAM2000, on Sep 1. It "is intended for the inoculation of people at high risk of exposure to smallpox and could be used to protect individuals and populations during a bioterrorist attack," the FDA said in a news release. ...
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2007/09/fda-approves-acambis-smallpox-vaccine
 
Emily Have you seen any of these links?

Dr. Mark Buller, was the US's leading Orthopox Virus researcher .
Buller Says Vaccine for Monkeypox (using smallpox vax) NOT recommended: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17661673

Apparently due to high number of immunocompromised people, particularly homosexual men who are most at risk for monkey pox, using the small pox vaccine (which provides some, but not full, immunity), may cause the virus to escape and rapidly evolve. His mouse studies developed a super strain that not only killed all the test subjects, but it could not be stopped either through additional vaccination or therapeutics.

Interesting that this is was a table top exercise (war gamed), and sponsored by the NTI in Munich last year. In their hypothetical scenario, the monkey pox outbreak was scheduled for May 15, 2022.

June is Pride Month and potential super spreader events are taking place all over the western world.

And here are a few other links you may find interesting.

NYT Mousepox Gain of Function: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/01/u...-mousepox.html

Buller paper on Monkeypox Outbreaks up to 2012: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23626656/

Judicial Watch re James Leduc / Wuhan: https://www.judicialwatch.org/wuhan-lab-fauci-grants/

National Biocontainment Training Center report by Leduc: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1022067.pdf
 
Haven't seen those, thank you, GS!
Regarding smallpox vaccine use for this particular (mild) outbreak virus - I think it would be a big mistake for any sort of routine use.
 
Quote from paper GardenSpider posted above. Public health in Europe is planning testing, removal and possible cull's of pets, and some here want the same. ACAM is vaccinia - what will happen if the virus transfers to pets from the vaccine wound?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17661673
Parker S, Nuara A, Buller RM, Schultz DA. Human monkeypox: an emerging zoonotic disease. Future Microbiol. 2007 Feb;2(1):17-34. doi: 10.2217/17460913.2.1.17. PMID: 17661673.

When vaccination with vaccinia was practiced, it
was not unusual for domestic animals to become
infected, and in certain instances the virus per-
sisted[58]. In 1985, vaccinia virus was isolated
from scabs taken from pox lesions on buffaloes in
fivedifferentdistrictsofMaharashtraState,
India[59]. Buffalopox (a subspecies of vaccinia)
outbreaks continued in this region until 1996
with human infections and possible subclinical
disease in endemic areas[60]. In addition, since
1999, vaccinia virus has been making increasing
infectious outbreaks in cattle and dairy workers
based in Minas Gerais state, Brazil[61]. In both the
Brazilian and Indian outbreaks, the source of vac-
cinia virus was thought to be the live vaccine used
during the smallpox eradication period. Similarly,
in 1932, vaccinia virus appeared to adapt to a rab-
bit host, thereby causing a new disease that was
highly lethal and transmissible to contact rabbits
by airborne infection[62]. The isolated agent was
named rabbitpox virus, and recent sequencing of
its genome confirmed it as a strain of vaccinia
virus[63].
 
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