- "...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 bio

- "...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."