Tokyo: Japan’s health ministry has approved the use of a smallpox vaccine believed to be effective against monkeypox. The smallpox vaccine approved by the ministry is thought to be 85 per cent effective against monkeypox, health officials said. The move came after Japan confirmed two cases of the disease in late July in men in […]
London: European and American health authorities have identified a number of cases monkeypox in recent days, mostly in young men. It’s a surprising outbreak of disease that rarely appears outside Africa. Health officials around the world are keeping watch for more cases because, for the first time, the disease appears to be spreading among people […]
Scientist, Edward Jenner observed that the milkmaids who were exposed to the cowpox virus (a virus that affected cows) did not develop smallpox which lead to the discovery of vaccine
