Smallpox jabs can provide lifetime protection from monkeypox: study

• Published date: 09 August 2022
• Publication title: The Nation - Thailand

In a Facebook post on Sunday, Dr Chontavat Suvanpiyasiri, a dermato-immunologist at Samitivej Sukhumvit Hospital, cited a study published in the American Journal of Medicine in 2008.

The study, 'Immunity from Smallpox Vaccine Persists for Decades', is available on https://bit.ly/3vOZZVp.

The study covered 246 people aged between 13 and 88, of whom 209 had been vaccinated against smallpox at least once, eight had got smallpox as children, while 29 had no history of infection or vaccination.

The study found that those...