Vector explains why chickenpox and rubella vaccines won’t help with monkeypox

Rospotrebnadzor’s Vector science center said that chickenpox or rubella vaccines cannot reduce the severity of monkeypox in humans. writes about him RT.

“All these diseases belong to different virus families,” the center said.

Accordingly, persons with the above-mentioned diseases are also not immune to monkeypox. This is explained by the fact that the causative agent of monkeypox is a virus from a large family of smallpox viruses, in turn, chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus of the herpes virus family, and rubella is the only pathogen from the rubivirus family. .

Nikolai Malyshev, formerly an infectious disease specialist, Doctor of Medical Sciences declarationHe said there is no specific treatment yet for monkeypox, but vaccination against smallpox could protect against this type of virus.

Currently, vaccination against smallpox is not mandatory in Russia.



Source: Gazeta

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