“There is no need for immunization now,” RIA Novosti quotes Popova as saying on the margins of SPIEF.
According to her, there is a smallpox vaccine and it is available.
She added that the monkeypox virus has long been known and well studied.
Earlier it became known that the regions of Russia received test systems for the detection of monkeypox virus, manufactured by the Vector Center of Rospotrebnadzor.
Rospotrebnadzor also noted that no cases of monkeypox have been detected in Russia.