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U.S. confirms first case of more aggressive strain of mpox (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there any partial immunity conferred by this? I wasn’t sure if monkeypox is a virus related enough for the vaccine to have that effect. The smallpox vaccine does nothing against chicken pox, for example