Your guide to the ‘third-generation’ monkeypox vaccines coming to Australia
Around 450,000 doses are expected to arrive as monkeypox is declared an 'incident of national significance'
Australia has finally secured 450,000 doses of the third-generation monkeypox vaccine, with the delivery of the first 22,000 doses due to arrive in days.
It comes as the Chief Medical Officer recently declared monkeypox a “communicable disease incident of national significance”.
To be clear, at the time of writing there are 58 people with the virus in Australia. Most of the cases are in NSW and Victoria, with most through travel, but some through community spread.
But globally, we have gone from a few hundred to more than 23,000 cases in three months, with the US overtaking European countries to have the largest number of cases.
