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The Netherlands starts vaccination against monkeypox

Monkeypox vaccine -Sven Hoppe/dpa

The health authorities of the Netherlands have started this Monday the vaccination against monkeypox in the capital, Amsterdam, and the city of The Hague, focusing first on people belonging to risk groups.

Thus, some 32,000 people are scheduled to receive the first dose and, after four weeks, inject a second one that would grant a certain degree of immunity, according to the public broadcaster NOS.

Dutch authorities consider people at high risk to be those who are prescribed HIV prevention drugs, those who have the virus and those who have contracted or been exposed to sexually transmitted diseases.

Last Thursday, the authorities confirmed more than 700 cases in the country, most of them in the provinces of North Holland and Flevoland, according to the Dutch News portal.

Precisely this Monday the European Commission has approved the use of the Imvanex vaccine against monkeypox in the European Union, as well as in Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

Monkeypox begins with fever, headache, muscle aches, exhaustion, and swollen lymph nodes. This disease can be fatal, although it is usually milder than smallpox.

It is transmitted to people from various wild animals, such as rodents and primates, but can also be transmitted between people through direct or indirect contact.

This weekend the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern.

Source: Europa Press

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