Preventive vaccination against smallpox will sail in Portugal
Since the end of July, the possibility of widening the public is against monkeypox. Now, it’s going to follow. Confirmation is given by the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) itself, confirmation is on a Thursday to allow for confirmation and later: that is, after contact, suspected or confirmed case.
Who is eligible? There is still no answer to this question. A, for short, the publication can provide the standard and how DGS guarantee will be. For now, it is known that in order to also have a greater amount of amenity, a strategy to increase efficiency, even sometimes, which can be more than five times.
“To be real operationalization/decoupling from the possibility of restricting conditions and, in addition, being limited from the possibility of operationalization, read definition of definition of management rules additional eligibility to the post-exposure proposal”, if in the current definition unpublished place of the DGS.
Limiting doses had already been criticized by the DGS in the past, but the “dose-saving” strategy, in which one bottle allows five doses to be administered (instead of the actual one dose), guarantees an increase in the available doses.
Despite the possibility that there will be an increase in availability (five times more European), there are no data on the Imvanex vaccine (the vaccine invented in the Union and the United States against monkeypox) at lower doses.
At the end of July, the then DGS spokesperson for monkeypox (varicella or Margaridares, said that VMP promised to continue as “people with partner partners, with new partners or namesakes to follow in the future. Two months after the statements of the new Secretary of State for Health Promotion, in a name that was announced this Thursday, the new rule that will define the eligible population will also include sex workers and those who pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP, a pill or effective intermittent prevention of HIV transmission).
The inclusion of men who have sex with others could also be a possibility, similar to what happens in other countries such as Germany or the United Kingdom. However, there is no indication in this direction.
Portugal received 2700 doses of the first joint purchase of vaccines by the European Commission. Earlier this month, another contract was made official for the purchase of 170,000 doses of vaccines against VMPX – but its distribution among member countries has not yet been unveiled.
With almost 60,000 confirmed worldwide, most in countries where the virus is not usually present, the trend is decreasing in Europe – suspected cases of concerns with the American continent.
Portugal maintains a downward trend that has been evident since August, with ten more confirmed cases over the last week (908 in total since the beginning of the outbreak). It is the third consecutive week in less than 3 weeks of confirmed VMPX in Portuguese territory, with a more recent pace of transmission on this list, with a more recent pace in the first months, in which Portugal reached confirmed cases in many months by millions of inhabitants. .
In Portugal, until 12 September, 437 high-risk contacts had already been vaccinated. It should be remembered that doses against the VMPX vaccine are still concentrated only in contacts of infected people or people suspected of being infected.