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Health officials have tallied up to 13 cases in eight states [as of May 27]. Doses of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine are being offered to only at-risk close contacts of monkeypox cases in at least four jurisdictions for now: Colorado, Massachusetts, Virginia and Washington. Doses are being shipped from the federal government's stockpile.
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"Vaccine is typically only used if we are concerned about a higher risk type of exposure. Not everyone who is assessed as a contact receives vaccine, because we know that monkeypox is not as easily transmissible as other viruses like Covid-19," [said a Virginia Department of Health official].
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The rollout serves as an early test for Bavarian Nordic's Jynneos, which was approved in 2019 by the FDA for smallpox and monkeypox. Jynneos is so new that the CDC only published its formal recommendations for use of the vaccine on Friday. It is unclear exactly how many doses of Jynneos will be available for use in the U.S. if the outbreak swells.