The president of the Spanish Association of Vaccinology (AEV), Amós García, sees "reasonable" that
vaccine inoculations against monkeypox occur in people who have had close contact
with a positive case and, above all, who present "
high
risk" profiles or in the case of "health professionals
who have treated confirmed cases and were not protected with PPE".
García does not believe that it makes "sense" to administer a dose in a generalized way to the population.
In addition, the president of the AEV considers that the request to the central government for the purchase of vaccines, such as the one made this week by the Andalusian Government, "is reasonable" in a "post-exposure" context.
"Logically it is not a vaccine that would have a preventive nature, but rather a post-exposure vaccine in people who have been in contact with already confirmed cases and, above all, people who have high risk profiles,"
reports
Europa Press
.
Amós has stressed that "as the current outbreak" is developing in Europe, "the vast majority of cases are mild, but given the possibility that some of them progress to an undesirable critical situation, it is logical that
at least Those with a higher risk profile and who are in contact are vaccinated as far as possible within four days of contact with the case or up to 14 days later.
Likewise, he pointed out that those
people who were vaccinated against smallpox until the 1980s, which stopped being administered as it was considered an eradicated disease, have a protection that ranges between 80 and 85%
against this variant, which has defined as a "slight first cousin" to the original.
In addition, he has ruled out the possibility of returning to this form of inoculation, noting that the vaccines now available are administered subcutaneously.
In any case, he has insisted that
"it makes no sense" to vaccinate the entire population.
"It could make sense in people who have had close contact with confirmed cases and especially in people who have a significant risk profile, or for example, health workers who have treated confirmed cases and were not protected with PPE," he explained. .
The case of the woman from Extremadura is ruled out
On the other hand, the Junta de Extremadura has announced that
the clinical samples sent to the National Microbiology Center in the suspected case of monkeypox that was being investigated in a patient from Extremadura have been negative.
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