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Söder Minister wants to order a monkeypox vaccine - two more cases in Bavaria

2022-05-25T11:41:28.673Z


Söder Minister wants to order a monkeypox vaccine - two more cases in Bavaria Created: 05/25/2022, 13:28 By: Katarina Amtmann Klaus Holetschek advocates ordering a vaccine with a view to the monkeypox virus (archive image). © IMAGO / Sven Simon The monkeypox virus is spreading and has also arrived in Munich. Health Minister Holetschek wants to order a vaccine - and receives an objection. The


Söder Minister wants to order a monkeypox vaccine - two more cases in Bavaria

Created: 05/25/2022, 13:28

By: Katarina Amtmann

Klaus Holetschek advocates ordering a vaccine with a view to the monkeypox virus (archive image).

© IMAGO / Sven Simon

The monkeypox virus is spreading and has also arrived in Munich.

Health Minister Holetschek wants to order a vaccine - and receives an objection.

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Update from May 25, 7:56 a.m

.: Two other confirmed cases of monkeypox have occurred in Bavaria.

The Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday evening in Munich that both patients had recently returned to the Free State independently of one another from a trip abroad.

One of the two patients is now in the Munich Clinic Schwabing.

The other case was reported from the Ansbach district, where the person concerned is now also in isolation.

Söder Minister wants to order a monkeypox vaccine - but the doctor disagrees

First report from May 23:

Munich – slight sigh of relief in the state capital: The 26-year-old patient, who is in the Schwabing hospital with monkeypox, suffers from the milder, West African variant.

But: In the meantime, further German cases have been diagnosed in Berlin.

The virus is spreading worldwide.

Monkeypox virus in Bavaria: Holetschek for vaccine order

Bavaria's health minister now wants extensive preventive measures like in Great Britain: "I think it's important that we order a vaccine now," said Klaus Holetschek (CSU) on Sunday during the

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talk "The Right Questions".

But the doctor Gunter Frank contradicted: The task of medicine is to inform people and "not to stir up panic".

Medicines and vaccines: What helps against the monkeypox virus?

But what are the vaccination options?

“There are several smallpox vaccines that also offer some protection against monkeypox.

The original smallpox vaccine is no longer available, so people under 40/50 are usually unvaccinated as smallpox vaccination was discontinued in the 1970's after the disease was thought to be eradicated.

A smallpox vaccine containing modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) has been approved in the EU.

Vaccination is currently being offered to close contacts in the UK,” wrote virologist Sandra Ciesek on Twitter on May 21.

Monkeypox virus in Bavaria - Holetschek assures: No lockdown

Holetschek made it clear at the

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: “We are not talking about a new pandemic right now.

We are talking about a development that needs to be monitored closely.” According to Holetschek, nobody need fear a “monkeypox lockdown” similar to the corona lockdown.

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Bavaria: Federal Ministry of Health expects further cases of monkeypox

Meanwhile, the Federal Ministry of Health expects increasing cases of monkeypox.

"Due to the many contacts of those currently infected, further diseases are to be expected in Europe and also in Germany," says a report for the health committee of the Bundestag.

As of Sunday afternoon (May 22), there are now four confirmed cases of infection and illness in Germany - one in Munich and three in Berlin.

Samples from other people are being clarified.

Contact persons would be identified.

"It is now an event with international distribution," says the ministry report, which is available to the German Press Agency.

In numerous countries, more than 130 confirmed cases and suspected cases have been detected, “and the trend is increasing every day”.

So far, the West African monkeypox variant has been detected in the infections found in Europe, but further genome analyzes are still ongoing.

(came with dpa)

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