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When will a vaccine be available?

msbarnett 4y ago
A vaccine for it was first available somewhere between 1774 and 1796, depending on your view of the early events in its history.
- arisAlexis 4y ago
  Rephrasing OP: when will a vaccine be available to the public given that WHO stockpile is 30million?
epgui 4y ago
If you click on the title it brings you to a webpage that has the full article.
- ratsmack 4y ago
  I think I detect some humor here.
  - epgui 4y ago
    The sentence was constructed in a facility where humour is processed.
perihelions 4y ago
- "...and because it is related to the smallpox virus, there are already treatments and vaccines on hand for curbing its spread" - "As a precaution against bioterrorism, countries such as the United States maintain a supply of smallpox vaccines, as well as an antiviral treatment thought to be highly effective against the virus. The therapies probably wouldn’t be deployed on a large scale, though, McCollum says. Health-care workers would probably instead use a method called ‘ring vaccination’ to contain the spread of monkeypox: this would vaccinate the close contacts of people who have been infected with monkeypox to cut off any routes of transmission."
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shrubble 4y ago
Saracennia purpurea , the purple pitcher plant, extract/tincture taken every 4 to 6 hours may be good enough.
- ttul 4y ago
  Actually might have a point: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/rediscovered-native-american-remedy-kills-poxvirus/3003420.article https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/rediscovered-native-amer...
  - ceejayoz 4y ago
    > Now, Jeffrey Langland at Arizona State University in Tempe, US, and colleagues have conducted in vitro experiments with the herbal extract and found it inhibits replication of the variola virus, the causative agent behind smallpox. https://xkcd.com/1217/ https://xkcd.com/1217/ "When you see a claim that a common drug or vitamin 'kills cancer cells in a petri dish', keep in mind: so does a handgun." Given that smallpox helped nearly wipe out the Native Americans, I'm doubly skeptical of "ancient Native American remedy for smallpox!" claims.
    - nkozyra 4y ago
      Fair to be skeptical, but "native Americans" represented a lot of people segregated by geography and culture. The idea that a small group of them might have found something useful, which is at least backed up by some historical medical anecdote, is not on its surface implausible.
      - epgui 4y ago
        On the balance of probabilities, it’s very implausible. (biochemist)
        nkozyra 4y ago
        Why? If I'm familiar with an herb that has medicinal properties and that plant grows only where I live, it's pretty much what I'd expect.
hprotagonist 4y ago
mid-october 2001
dehrmann 4y ago
Ironically for you, the OG vaccine, the literal etymological root for the word "vaccine," is effective against it.
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saguntum 4y ago
The CDC claims that the US Strategic National Stockpile holds enough smallpox vaccine to inoculate every person in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/bioterrorism-response-planning/public-health/vaccination-strategies.html https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/bioterrorism-response-planning/... > The Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) has stockpiled enough smallpox vaccine to vaccinate every person in the United States. In a smallpox emergency, the SNS will coordinate with the Medical Countermeasures (MCM) coordinator or the preparedness office in the state or territorial health department. The MCM coordinator will allocate vaccine to local areas, depending upon the circumstances of the emergency. How long that would take to roll out is anyone's guess, but I believe a vaccination campaign could rollout fairly quickly if the monkeypox outbreak turns out to be sufficiently contagious to warrant use of the reserve, assuming the reserve is effective against any possible mutations.
- tinus_hn 4y ago
  Considering the smallpox vaccine is well known to carry significant risks of severe adverse effects or death and among large groups government trust is very low, I don’t believe it’ll be that easy to roll out.

A vaccine for it was first available somewhere between 1774 and 1796, depending on your view of the early events in its history.

arisAlexis 4y ago
Rephrasing OP: when will a vaccine be available to the public given that WHO stockpile is 30million?

epgui 4y ago

If you click on the title it brings you to a webpage that has the full article.

ratsmack 4y ago
I think I detect some humor here.
- epgui 4y ago
  The sentence was constructed in a facility where humour is processed.

perihelions 4y ago

- "...and because it is related to the smallpox virus, there are already treatments and vaccines on hand for curbing its spread" - "As a precaution against bioterrorism, countries such as the United States maintain a supply of smallpox vaccines, as well as an antiviral treatment thought to be highly effective against the virus. The therapies probably wouldn’t be deployed on a large scale, though, McCollum says. Health-care workers would probably instead use a method called ‘ring vaccination’ to contain the spread of monkeypox: this would vaccinate the close contacts of people who have been infected with monkeypox to cut off any routes of transmission."

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shrubble 4y ago

Saracennia purpurea , the purple pitcher plant, extract/tincture taken every 4 to 6 hours may be good enough.

ttul 4y ago
Actually might have a point: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/rediscovered-native-american-remedy-kills-poxvirus/3003420.article https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/rediscovered-native-amer...
- ceejayoz 4y ago
  > Now, Jeffrey Langland at Arizona State University in Tempe, US, and colleagues have conducted in vitro experiments with the herbal extract and found it inhibits replication of the variola virus, the causative agent behind smallpox. https://xkcd.com/1217/ https://xkcd.com/1217/ "When you see a claim that a common drug or vitamin 'kills cancer cells in a petri dish', keep in mind: so does a handgun." Given that smallpox helped nearly wipe out the Native Americans, I'm doubly skeptical of "ancient Native American remedy for smallpox!" claims.
  - nkozyra 4y ago
    Fair to be skeptical, but "native Americans" represented a lot of people segregated by geography and culture. The idea that a small group of them might have found something useful, which is at least backed up by some historical medical anecdote, is not on its surface implausible.
    - epgui 4y ago
      On the balance of probabilities, it’s very implausible. (biochemist)
      - nkozyra 4y ago
        Why? If I'm familiar with an herb that has medicinal properties and that plant grows only where I live, it's pretty much what I'd expect.

hprotagonist 4y ago

mid-october 2001

dehrmann 4y ago

Ironically for you, the OG vaccine, the literal etymological root for the word "vaccine," is effective against it.

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saguntum 4y ago

The CDC claims that the US Strategic National Stockpile holds enough smallpox vaccine to inoculate every person in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/bioterrorism-response-planning/public-health/vaccination-strategies.html https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/bioterrorism-response-planning/... > The Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) has stockpiled enough smallpox vaccine to vaccinate every person in the United States. In a smallpox emergency, the SNS will coordinate with the Medical Countermeasures (MCM) coordinator or the preparedness office in the state or territorial health department. The MCM coordinator will allocate vaccine to local areas, depending upon the circumstances of the emergency. How long that would take to roll out is anyone's guess, but I believe a vaccination campaign could rollout fairly quickly if the monkeypox outbreak turns out to be sufficiently contagious to warrant use of the reserve, assuming the reserve is effective against any possible mutations.

tinus_hn 4y ago
Considering the smallpox vaccine is well known to carry significant risks of severe adverse effects or death and among large groups government trust is very low, I don’t believe it’ll be that easy to roll out.