Bavaria to order vaccines against monkeypox
Munich - "I think it's important that we order a vaccine now," he told the TV station Bild. For example, the minister mentioned contact persons of infected people as possible areas of application: "It's about vaccinating the contacts, if it's possible." The Robert Koch Institute and science are currently discussing "bar vaccinations in this area or in people whose immune systems are not so stable".
It is now not a question of compulsory vaccination, but of the question of whether preventive vaccinations are possible and correct in the area of contact persons, and if so, with which vaccines. "What we can do preventively, we do. We have to educate the public, we have to provide vaccines and we have to provide medicines."
Holetschek pointed out that many federal states have stored smallpox vaccines. But the question is whether it is still usable. In Bavaria, the government is already in contact with a company that is researching and producing vaccines in this area.
Source: Der Newsticker
Photo: Sven Hoppe/dpa
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