ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: There are no current reported cases of the monkeypox virus in San Diego, but local infectious disease specialist says health officials are 'watching very carefully what's going on.'
There are two drugs that are active. One of them is called TPOXX and it's in the process of being made available through the county health department and UCSD. There is another drug called Brincidofovir which is not yet available for this virus but is active against smallpox, and we presume would be active against monkeypox. That drug was developed here by Dr. Karl Hostetler at UC San Diego.
There have been reports of vaccine shortages in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Does San Diego have a sufficient supply of monkeypox vaccines?Well, there are two different vaccines that are effective against monkeypox. One of them is called ACAM2000. There's plenty of that vaccine around. It's a vaccine that's closer to the smallpox vaccine and a little bit more likely to cause side effects if people use it.
What lessons have health officials learned from the coronavirus pandemic that you see being used to prepare for monkeypox?I think it's important to — as Wayne Gretzky used to say — to try to skate to where the puck is going to be rather than where it is, and to keep an eye on how the virus is spreading. We need to be careful to realize that this virus can spread to anyone who comes in close contact to someone who has monkeypox.
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