Since 2007, the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) has stockpiled enough pox vaccines to vaccinate every single person in the US if a biological terror attack occurs. The UK has done the same.
However, there is a problem with those vaccines. People don’t want them when they bring monkeypox home from countries where the virus is endemic, says Bavarian Nordic CEO Paul Chaplin.
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