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Japan OKs smallpox vaccine to prevent monkeypox

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Staff Published July 29, 2022
Last updated: 2022/07/29 at 1:29 PM
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An expert panel of the health ministry Friday approved the use of a smallpox vaccine made by KM Biologics, based in the city of Kumamoto, to prevent monkeypox.

Smallpox vaccines are about 85% effective in preventing monkeypox, the ministry said. The government has stockpiled smallpox vaccines as an anti-terrorism measure.

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